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Heather Munroe-Blum believes innovation at Carolina is as
old as the University itself.
Innovation began when Carolina did, 217 years ago, with
the rise of a public university predicated on the then radical notion that
the public had an innate intelligence that, if unlocked, would greatly
benefit the state, she said.
Then, midway through the 20th century, Carolina helped co-found a
second great innovation – Research Triangle Park – a model that would
become the archetype for economic development around the world.
More recently, the Carolina Covenant – which has enabled qualified
students from low-income families to graduate debt-free – is another
innovation that works, as evidenced by several imitators, said Munroe-
Blum, principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in Montreal,
who was the guest speaker for the traditional University Day convocation.
Munroe-Blum, who earned a doctorate with distinction in epide-miology
from Carolina in 1983, has dedicated her career to advancing
higher education, science and innovation in Canada. She has advised
governments around the world on the role of universities in advancing
international competitiveness.
“Now, more than ever, the United States needs innovative
Carol ina Facul ty and Staff News
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Faculty members gather around the Old Well prior to the procession for the University
Day convocation on Oct. 12.
Heather Munroe-Blum, principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in Montreal,
delivers the University Day address in Memorial Hall.
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Carolina North annual report
presented at public meeting
Carolina North Executive Director Jack Evans
confirmed that the Innovation Center is “not
likely to happen” because of economic condi-tions.
He spoke about the center as part of his
public presentation of the first Carolina North
Development Agreement Annual Report at the
Chapel Hill Town Hall on Sept. 29.
The Innovation Center, incubation space for
faculty and staff members to develop ideas for
the marketplace, was to have been built by a
private developer on University land, with the
University leasing a portion of the space. But the
downturn in the economy has meant this model
did not work to the mutual benefit of both par-ties,
and no further negotiations are under way.
However, incubator space for innovators
could be part of a future research building at
Carolina North, Evans said. Penny Rich, a mem-ber
of the Chapel Hill Town Council, asked
Evans if that research building would be on the
town’s tax rolls. “Its activities could be taxable,”
Evans said, if the building is owned by a private
developer.
Another question from the audience related
to the timetable for the closing of Horace Wil-liams
Airport.
“The ability to move Med Air operations
depends on the hangar completion at RDU
airport in June 2011,” Evans said. “But we may
not close the airport immediately after moving
Med Air.”
Other factors to be considered in timing the
closing are the growth rates of trees in the flight
path but not on University property, and the
sites of the new School of Law and research
buildings, which may be on or near the current
runway.
Other discussion at the presentation focused
on conservation easements and mitigation strat-egies
for wetlands areas as part of the Universi-ty’s
permit application to the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers. A second public information ses-sion
on this permit application will be held later
this year.
Comments and questions from the presenta-tion
will be incorporated into a report to the
Town Council at its Oct. 11 meeting, said Town
Manager Roger Stancil.
Earlier this week, Chancellor Holden Thorp shared his annual online video address
with the Carolina community. He reflected on the University’s successes, despite
ongoing budget challenges, and talked about bold planning for the future.
“This economy has made this a very tough year for most universities. But I would
put Carolina up against any campus in the nation for how we responded to the difficult
times and moved forward,” he said. “By almost any measure, we had an excellent year.”
Thorp cited the impressive quality of the incoming class, the record $803 million in
research funding Carolina faculty attracted, the University being ranked 30th among
the world’s top 200 universities and the continued strength of alumni giving (the Uni-versity
received $268 million in gifts).
One of the biggest challenges, he said, is the still-bleak budget outlook, with North
Carolina facing a shortfall exceeding $3 billion for next fiscal year. In response, all
UNC system schools have been asked to prepare budget scenarios of 5 percent and
10 percent. And here, administrators are using the Carolina Counts initiative to help
pinpoint efficiencies in campus operations.
Thorp called for bold planning for the future so the University can seize opportuni-ties
when the economy recovers.
“Planning is a community activity here,” he said. “Engaged students, faculty and
staff have helped develop ideas that led to dramatic changes.”
For example, the development of the Carolina Physical Science Complex (see
related story on page 6) is an example of multidisciplinary collaborations, and through
the University Cancer Research Fund, the University is better able to treat cancer
patients and seek a cure for the disease.
Going forward, the new Academic Plan “will be our to-do list for the next decade
or so,” he said, and will affirm how Carolina can best serve both students and society.
Also, the recently unveiled roadmap, Innovate@Carolina: Important Ideas for
a Better World, outlines how the University can produce basic knowledge with the
highest impact.
“We want to create an environment where people feel comfortable taking risks and
trying to address new problems,” Thorp said. “The goal is to engage everyone on cam-pus,
regardless of discipline.”
To see the video, refer to http://bit.ly/cU5izX.
Thorp looks back
at successes
and challenges
of the past year
on the web
Ferris specializes in kidneys
and ... wedding cakes
Photojournalist Nathan Clendenin spent a day with
Maria Ferris, the clinical associate professor of medi-cine
who directs the kidney dialysis and transplant
programs at UNC Hospitals, and who also has a flair
http://bit.ly/ddm34C for making beautiful wedding cakes.
‘The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes’
Margarite Nathe wrote a story for the fall issue of Endeav-ors
about Randi Davenport, executive director of the
Johnston Center, her son Chase and the book Davenport
wrote about him that, in part, chronicles the battle to
diagnose and treat his neuro-biological illness.
http://bit.ly/c1tutF
Ackland’s Kass appears on
‘North Carolina People’
Emily Kass, director of the Ackland Art Museum, spoke
with UNC president emeritus William Friday recently
on his WUNC-TV program, “North Carolina People.”
Kass discussed the Ackland’s exhibitions and program-http://
bit.ly/bS2azE ming as well as the museum’s goals for the future.
October 14, 2010 3
The University Library and the Health Sci-ences
Library will participate in the fourth global
Open Access Week Oct. 18–22 by launching the
2010–11 Open Access Authors’ Fund. The fund
will offer a total of $10,000 to UNC researchers and
students to cover charges related to publishing an
article in an open access journal.
Also planned are a series of events and open
access myth-busting information posted on the
libraries’ websites.
Open access refers to a range of initiatives
designed to share scholarly information, which
typically has been available only through special-ized
journals, whose costs can run to the tens of
thousands of dollars.
Open access offers the promise of free, imme-diate
access to the results of scholarly research,
coupled with the right of researchers to subse-quently
use those results as needed for schol-arship.
The University Library and the Health
Sciences Library actively promote open access
on the Carolina campus. Several opportunities
will mark Open Access Week 2010:
n Open Access Authors’ Fund 2010–11 – UNC
faculty, post-doctoral researchers and gradu-ate
or professional students may apply for
funding of up to $1,000 to publish an article
in an open access journal, with $10,000 to
be distributed during the current fiscal year.
Support is provided by the University Library
and Health Sciences Library. Refer to http://
bit.ly/bEj0wQ.
n Visualizing Copyright: Debunking Open
Access and Copyright Myths about Film
and Visual Media – On Oct. 18, from
10:30 a.m. to noon in Wilson Library, a panel
discussion led by faculty member Paul Jones,
director of ibiblio.org, will focus on the use
of visual media in academic instruction and
the scholarly enterprise. Topics include sources
creators can use, uses for instruction, and
designing and presenting works to maximize
their benefits.
n New Models of Scholarly Publishing –
On Oct. 21, from 9 to 11 a.m. in Perkins Library
at Duke University, a panel will discuss expe-riences
with open access publishing and its
impact. Speakers will include Melanie Dunshee
from the Duke Law Library, Mohamed Noor
from Duke’s Department of Biology, Mira
Waller from Project Euclid and Bora Zivkovic
from the Public Library of Science.
n Busted! Open Access Myth of the Day – Learn
the truth about open access by visiting the
Health Sciences Library website (www.hsl.unc.
edu) every day of the week.
For more about open access events in the area,
refer to http://bit.ly/9az0OF. For information
about Open Access Week, refer to www.openac-essweek.
org.
Libraries’ Open
Access Week
begins Oct. 18
A bad economy has created what Chan-cellor
Holden Thorp has described as a
“new normal” for the University in terms
of the amount of money available each
year – and the care necessary to squeeze
full value out of every dollar.
On Oct. 6, Larry Conrad, vice chan-cellor
for information technology and
chief information officer, reviewed with
Employee Forum members some of the
ways Information Technology Services
(ITS) has responded to the challenge.
Through Carolina Counts, the
University’s systemic approach to stream-line
operations based on recommendations
from the 2009 Bain & Company report,
10 top-level administrators – called proj-ect
champions – are responding to recom-mendations
within their areas of responsi-bility.
Conrad is the project champion for
information technology.
The Bain study, Conrad said, estimated
that ITS had the potential to save $12 mil-lion
to $19 million a year from its budget.
Conrad said he had pressed the consul-tants
to explain the methodology used
to reach those figures and it is not clear
whether these number are accurate.
“But it is clear that there are opportuni-ties
for savings,” Conrad said.
Carolina Counts has identified 32 proj-ects
that could help the University reach
that goal by directly or indirectly reducing
information technology costs.
Conrad said he pushed to create the
Carolina Counts IT Partnership Program
to drive the adoption of some of these
projects within affected campus units.
He is leading one project that calls for
reducing overhead and improving the effi-ciency
of the IT support organizations. As
of July 1, he said, this initiative had pro-duced
savings of $6 million, and adminis-trators
anticipate saving another $1 million
by the end of the fiscal year.
Other recently completed projects
include one to provide well-defined IT
security policies, standards and services
for the campus, Conrad said, and one
to reduce the use of on-call pay. There is
no way to quantify the savings improved
security measures might produce, because
future savings will come from averting
potential crises, Conrad said, but his divi-sion
expects the on-call pay reduction to
save more than $700,000 a year.
One key to the success of the initiatives
is involving the campus community as the
initiatives are developed and letting people
know how changes would affect them,
Conrad said.
For additional information about
Carolina Counts IT projects, refer
to carolinacounts.unc.edu/projects/
initiatives-projects.
In other forum matters, members voted
to have Danny Nguyen, chair of the Leg-islative
Action Committee, attend an
upcoming meeting of the State Personnel
Commission, which will consider pro-posed
changes to the University’s SPA
Grievance Policy.
Nguyen’s charge is to affirm for the
record, based on an earlier forum resolu-tion,
changes the forum likes and dislikes
about the proposal. If approved later this
month, the revised grievance procedure
would go into effect in January.
Employee Forum
Conrad discusses ITS cost-saving measures
The question most on people’s minds about the NCAA and
University investigation into possible agent violations and aca-demic
misconduct of the football team is: When will it be over?
At the Oct. 8 Faculty Council meeting, Chancellor Holden
Thorp said he understood that people want an answer to that
question, but it is the hardest one to provide.
“We’re stuck in the middle, doing what’s right, but not hav-ing
a logical way to end the weekly suspense about who is going
to play,” he said. “I’m sad that intercollegiate athletics has taken
attention away from the important work we do.”
The NCAA investigation is in the early stages, Thorp said.
To illustrate his point, he held up a sheet of paper covered with
a flowchart outlining the NCAA’s process and pointed to a spot
about an inch from the top. “That’s where we are now,” he said.
On Monday, three players involved in the inquiry became ex-
Tar Heels. The NCAA declared Greg Little and Robert Quinn
permanently ineligible. The University said both players violated
agent benefits, preferential treatment and ethical conduct rules.
UNC dismissed Marvin Austin from the football program for the
same reasons, based on recent findings in the investigation, and did
not submit Austin’s case to the NCAA for reinstatement. (Current
information about the investigation and player status is available on
the Department of Athletics website, tarheelblue.cstv.com.)
At the council meeting, Thorp explained that the investigation
involves agent violations as well as academic misconduct, and
some students are involved in both aspects of the investigation.
The University and NCAA are looking at each individual student-athlete’s
situation.
The NCAA gave the University approval to lead the probe into
possible academic misconduct involving a former undergraduate
tutor and student-athletes and is working with the University in
that process. The University discovered that issue while investi-gating,
with the NCAA, potential agent violations.
Any evidence about possible Honor Code violations has been
turned over to the Student Attorney General, who is following
the University’s 130-year-old student-run process for dealing with
academic misconduct, Thorp said. That means some student-athletes
cleared to play by the NCAA will not play while going
through the judicial process.
Because of federal privacy law, the University is working to
protect the identity of the students involved in the investigation,
Thorp said.
“Intercollegiate athletics is important to us; it’s important to
our students to be able to put on a Carolina uniform and represent
us as varsity players,” he said. “But winning is not part of the pri-mary
work of the University; students are part of the primary work
of the University.”
The Faculty Athletics Committee met earlier in the week about
creating an environment where student-athletes can succeed in
the classroom, Thorp said. Bobbi Owen, senior associate dean for
undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences, and
John Blanchard, senior associate athletics director for student-athlete
services, agreed to lead an assessment of the academic
support program for student-athletes including its mission, staff
and resources.
One faculty member asked about processes to regulate contact
between the coaching staff and sports agents.
Athletics Director Dick Baddour said, going forward, the
Chancellor updates faculty about ongoing
NCAA and University football investigation
See Faculty Council page 10
4 Universi ty Gazet te
Thinking boldly is nothing new for Chancellor Holden Thorp.
During his May 2008 speech after being chosen Carolina’s 10th chan-cellor,
he said the University had an obligation to tackle the greatest chal-lenges
of our time. As he said then, some of the biggest challenges call for
immediate action. Yet, the current global economic crisis has complicated
the ability to respond to such challenges as it has inspired a new way of
thinking about the future.
Thorp believes that research universities play a vital role in reshaping the
economy and addressing pressing needs by producing basic knowledge with
the highest impact – not only in the United States, but around the world.
Along with Buck Goldstein, University entrepreneur in residence at
Carolina, Thorp has co-written “Engines of Innovation: The Entrepre-neurial
University in the Twenty-First Century,” published by UNC
Press. The authors contend that universities, as hubs of creativity that
spawn innovation, have a unique opportunity to use their intellectual and
financial resources to confront global challenges.
“Attacking the world’s biggest problems – problems such as hunger,
the shortage of water, climate change and inequality – serves as an ideal
organizing principle that will encourage a multitude of large and small
innovations,” the authors say in the book’s introduction. “It is no longer
merely desirable for universities to be the source of innovations. It is now
a national priority.”
Innovation, they say, is not necessarily a big idea that will change the
world overnight; it is the way a problem is approached: “Innovation almost
always involves change, but as often as not it is the change of a process or
way of doing things as opposed to the invention of a better mouse trap. Not
surprisingly, innovation is almost always driven by somebody (typically an
entrepreneur), not an institution or a listserv or a committee.”
Fueling that innovation, particularly when it comes to large-scale scien-tific
problems, is collaboration, Thorp and Goldstein say, but not at the
expense of dismantling traditional disciplines such as chemistry, physics
and biology.
“Encouraging a culture that accepts and promotes interdisciplinary
work within the traditional disciplines and across traditional barriers will
have a greater impact,” they say. “Hearing world-class academicians truly
talking to each other across disciplinary boundaries is a sign that impor-tant
work is taking place.”
The book outlines how leading research universities can turn their brain-power
and resources into practical, high-impact solutions. For additional
information about “Engines of Innovation,” refer to http://bit.ly/bZ4lMF.
All royalties from the book will support innovation and entrepreneur-ship
at the University.
Chancellor Holden Thorp will share his ideas for inspiring
innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit beyond scientific dis-covery
in a public talk on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in 111 Carroll
Hall. “Beyond the Sciences: Why the World’s Problems Need the
Whole University” will be sponsored by the Institute for the Arts
and Humanities.
On Oct. 29, the institute will hold a symposium on inno-vation
for Carolina faculty. Four panels of faculty and campus
leaders will discuss the role faculty can play in creating an
entrepreneurial university. Registration is required only for faculty
planning to attend lunch. For a schedule and to register, refer to
iah.unc.edu/calendar/innovationsymposium.
Thorp and
Goldstein on
innovation
University Day from page 1
universities like UNC-Chapel Hill, because
the electronic mobility of the Information Age
and the unprecedented mobility of the people
around the world are redrawing the map of
global influence, and innovation will define its
contours,” Munroe-Blum said.
Munroe-Blum said she was proud to be a
graduate of a great public university like Caro-lina
that has always been a profound force for
good in the world. But the University must do
even more.
“Today, we are being asked to examine how
we can all do more to make our world a safer,
more equitable, healthier and more prosper-ous
place,” she said. “We are being challenged
to do good, better.”
Chancellor Holden Thorp said Carolina
stands ready – “with the brainpower and tal-ent
and ideas” – to answer that call.
“The people of North Carolina and around
the world have invested tremendous resources
in research universities because they believe
that the quest for knowledge improves peo-ple’s
lives,” Thorp said.
“At critical times in our history, the people
have looked to this University for answers.
And Carolina has always responded.”
And it will do so again, he said.
Plans to do just that are in hand with the
launch last month of Innovate@Carolina:
Important Ideas for a Better World, a road-map
developed by alumni, friends, faculty
and students.
To read Munroe-Blum’s speech, see
uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3990/68.
For more about University Day, see www.unc.
edu/universityday.
During his final University Day appear-ance
as president of the UNC system,
Erskine Bowles, right, calls Chancellor
Holden Thorp the exemplar of the
Carolina Way. At left is featured speaker
Heather Munroe-Blum.
The procession of faculty, staff and
dignitaries prepares to file into Memorial
Hall for the convocation.
Erskine Bowles, in his last University Day cele-bration
as president of the UNC system, tipped his cap
to Carolina’s “two great chancellors” with whom he
had worked the past five years – James Moeser and
Holden Thorp.
Moeser, in his quiet but firm way, did what every
great CEO does: “He left Carolina stronger than he
found it,” Bowles said.
And selecting Thorp as chancellor, Bowles said, was,
by far, the best decision he ever made. “If you want to
know what the Carolina Way is, look no further than
this young man right here.”
He went on to say that every University leader has
been tested during his tenure.
“You can take comfort in knowing Holden Thorp has
never failed any test,” Bowles said. “In fact, he has
never, ever even come close to making a B.”
When Thorp returned to the podium, he offered
a disclaimer of sorts: “If any of my professors from
physical chemistry are here, I think you can speak to
Erskine afterward.”
He then praised Bowles’ leadership. “He really has a
deep appreciation of the people that make the Univer-sity
what it is – and he is a really good guy to be able
to call at 11:30 at night when you don’t know what to
do. … So, Erskine, we will miss you, and thank you for
everything you’ve done for Carolina.��
October 14, 2010 5
Faculty/Staff news
The peers of longtime faculty member and adminis-trator
Jack Evans have honored him with the pres-tigious
2010 Thomas Jefferson Award. Chancellor
Holden Thorp presented the award at the Oct. 8 Faculty
Council meeting.
Evans, executive director of Carolina North and the Phil-lip
Hettleman Professor of Business Administration in the
Kenan-Flagler Business School, has been at Carolina since
1970. Within four years of his arrival, he was selected by the
late Chancellor Ferebee Taylor to be assistant to the chan-cellor,
a post he held for three years.
Whether shaping the MBA curriculum, leading Kenan-
Flagler from 1979 to 1987, serving for 15 years as faculty
athletics representative to the Atlantic Coast Conference
and NCAA, or spearheading the planning for Carolina
North, Evans has amassed an impressive record of leader-ship
in the past four decades.
The annual Jefferson Award was created in 1961 by the
Robert Earl McConnell Foundation to recognize a Carolina
faculty member who, through personal influence and perfor-mance
of duty in teaching, writing and scholarship, has best
exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson.
UNC faculty members nominate candidates for the honor,
which carries a cash prize, and a faculty committee chooses
the recipient.
“For 40 years, Jack Evans has been an unselfish and dedi-cated
servant of this University in a wide variety of roles –
invariably emerging as leader and counselor noted for unfail-ing
good judgment and wisdom,” said George Lensing, Mann
Family Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative
Literature and last year’s Jefferson Award winner.
Evans served as president of the Association for the
Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business and chaired
a two-year project to redesign its accreditation process for
business schools. During the early 1990s, he worked with
corporate and academic leaders to create a new research
program, partially funded by corporate contributions, within
the National Science Foundation to support research on the
principles of continuous improvement.
Because of Evans’ wide-ranging expertise, he led teams of
examiners who evaluated organizations competing for the
prestigious Malcolm Baldrige Award. He was an examiner
from 1989 to 1993 and judge for the next three years, and he
served on the Board of Overseers from 2001 to 2003, includ-ing
two years as chair.
Evans’ influence has been felt throughout Kenan-Flagler,
where he chaired practically every major committee in the
school, as well as across the University, said Ben Rosen,
Hanes Professor of Management.
“Jack Evans has built a well-deserved reputation for his
ability to tackle complex and important problems, help
diverse stakeholders to find common ground, use good
judgment and lead with integrity,” Rosen said.
Evans is currently serving for the second time on the
Board of Governors of UNC Press. He recently chaired the
Finance Committee and this past July became board chair.
He has been commended for his work with the NCAA
and ACC. In presenting the Jefferson Award, Thorp said,
See evans page 11
‘Unfailing good judgment and wisdom’ mark Evans’ 40 years of service
Archie Ervin, the University’s associate provost for diver-sity
and multicultural affairs since 2005, will become Geor-gia
Tech’s inaugural vice president for institute diversity on
Jan. 1, 2011.
Ervin, a familiar face at Carolina since he came here in
1986 as assistant to the vice chancellor for university affairs,
has held many leadership roles in the past 24 years.
Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser asked Ervin to chair the
Chancellor’s Task Force on Diversity in 2004, and as a result
of task force recommendations, he created Ervin’s current
position to help the University broadly focus on diversity as a measure of excellence.
“While this is a major loss for Carolina, it is a testament to his (Ervin’s) tremen-dous
capabilities in helping university communities create an atmosphere of diver-sity
and inclusivity,” Bruce Carney, executive vice chancellor and provost, said in
announcing Ervin’s departure. “We are very proud of Archie and all that he has
helped us achieve here.”
The new post will provide a bigger arena and a greater challenge for Ervin as he
helps Georgia Tech shape its diversity-related goals and strategies, Carney told the
Ervin to lead institute diversity
at Georgia Tech on Jan. 1, 2011
ervin
Jean Folkerts, dean of the School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, announced last week
that she will step down as dean on June 30, 2011.
Folkerts, a media historian, will remain on the
school’s faculty to teach,
conduct research and
mentor students.
The announcement
was not a surprise to
Ch a n c e l l o r Ho l d e n
Thorp or Bruce Carney,
executive vice chancel-lor
and provost, both of
whom had tried to con-vince
Folkerts to stay on
as dean, Carney said during the Oct. 8 Faculty
Council meeting.
“Journalism is one of our most highly ranked
units,” he said, “and although it is sad to be losing
Jean, we have a lot to celebrate.”
The University will conduct a national search
for a new dean of the school led by Jim Dean,
dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School.
“I came to the school in 2006 with a
charge to help the school make a transition to
the new, digital media environment, and above
all – as a donor and longtime friend of the school
told me early in my time here – to ‘take good
care of our school.’ I hope I’ve done that,” Folk-erts
said. “Together with our alumni, faculty,
students and staff, I think we have created a
climate of constant innovation and a desire to be
the best.”
Before coming to Chapel Hill, Folkerts served
in several positions at George Washington Uni-versity.
She was director of the School of Media
and Public Affairs, interim dean of Columbian
College of Arts and Sciences, and associate pro-vost
for special academic initiatives.
To read more about Folkerts, refer to www.
jomc.unc.edu/homepage-news-slot-23-merged/
dean-jean.
Folkerts
Folkerts returns to teaching, research
See Ervin page 11
With the completion of Venable and Murray halls,
the vision for the Carolina Physical Science Complex is
becoming reality.
Look west from a certain glass door on the second
floor of the new buildings and you can see how the
basement level bay doors of Chapman Hall line up
with the loading dock directly across what is now a
parking lot.
You are not standing in just any open lounge area,
with cozy seats and sunlight streaming in. When the
Polk Place-style quad that will unite the science com-plex
is done, this door to nowhere will become the
new building’s entrance. That’s how far ahead the
details are planned.
Which is why, perhaps, it should come as no sur-prise
that much careful thought by faculty and staff
went into the planning and design of these newer
buildings of the science complex.
Some of that thinking
went against established
notions, such as putting
one discipline in its own
building. Instead, what
if scientific colleagues
shared the same hall-way?
That’s why synthetic organic chemists now have
offices on the second floor of Murray, Venable and
Caudill, all along the same wide corridor.
“When you’re working laterally, you bump into
people,” said Matthew Redinbo, chair of the chem-istry
department.
The marine sciences department also occupies
space in Venable and Murray, which is pretty far
inland for those who study the sea. But ingenuity and
design have brought the ocean to them in the form
of a special lab with running seawater. The lab was
built on the loading dock
level, outside the skin
of the building, to pre-vent
any saltwater effects
on the labs and offices
inside, said Brent McKee,
Mary and Watts Hill Jr.
Distinguished Professor and chair of the marine
sciences department.
In Chapman Hall, supersensitive equipment belong-ing
to the Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication
Laboratory found a home in the basement to get it as
close to bedrock and as far away from vibrating venti-lation
systems as possible. Now these scientists don’t
have to fear that even the slightest vibration will make
images of nanometer-sized objects fuzzy, said Thomas
Clegg, V. Lee Bounds Professor of Physics.
Another part of the Chapman basement was
originally an unfinished space that turned out to be
just the right size and shape for a giant wave tank
used by marine scientists and mathematicians who
study fluid dynamics.
The scientists also looked skyward for space. The
roof of Chapman serves as an observatory for the
physics and astronomy department. A greenhouse juts
out of the fourth floor of Venable so marine scientists
can take advantage of the sunlight and controlled cli-mate
to examine the effects of marsh plants on circu-lation
and other experiments.
Redinbo already envisions the day when behavioral
psychologists will occupy a new psychology building
across the quad from the scientists who study brain
chemistry in Venable, Murray and Caudill.
“It’s the idea of the Greek word ‘agora,’” Redinbo
said. “This is the center of mass for science in the
College of Arts and Sciences.”
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Collaboration thrives in Carolina Physical Science Complex
One way to measure the significance of the Carolina Physical Science Complex
is to consider the amount of money required to build it. The $250 million complex
is the largest construction project in the history of the University.
But to focus only on its size and cost may be missing a more vital point, said
Chancellor Holden Thorp, who has described the complex as the epicenter where
scientists from across campus, and throughout disciplines, come together to inno-vate
and collaborate.
The five buildings that comprise the complex house the departments of chemis-try,
computer science, marine sciences, mathematics, and physics and astronomy
in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as a new Institute for Advanced Materi-als,
Nanoscience and Technology.
By bringing faculty and students together in high-tech laboratories and class-rooms,
the complex is designed with an eye for functionality and a means to
enhance Carolina’s longtime strengths in collaboration and interdisciplinary
inquiry by pushing units well beyond their traditional “silos,” Thorp said.
The University dedicated the newest buildings – Venable Hall and Murray Hall
– on the site of the former Venable Hall on University Day.
A race against time
What a difference a decade can make.
In spring 2000, when a group of legislators visited to see the campus building
needs up close, the old Venable Hall, which then housed the chemistry and marine
sciences departments, was considered the poster child for fiscal neglect.
Carolina, among the top research universities in the country, was a leader in sci-ence
and technology, legislators were told, but the decrepit conditions inside Ven-able
posed a grave threat to the University’s ability to attract and keep talented
faculty and students.
Trying to conduct state-of-the-art research in such conditions, University lead-ers
said, was akin to trying to break a new land speed record in a souped-up Model
T. You might do OK for a while, but sooner or later, you need new wheels to stay
in the race. And Model Ts, it was also noted, stopped rolling off Henry Ford’s
assembly line in 1927 – four years after Venable first opened its doors.
Legislators saw enough that spring – here and on campuses throughout the
state – to put on the November ballot the 2000 Higher Education Bond Referen-dum,
which generated $3.1 billion to fund construction projects in the UNC and
community college systems.
Of the $515 million in bond money that Carolina received, $90 million was
earmarked for the Carolina Physical Science Complex, making it the bond refer-endum’s
largest allocation for a single project. But University leaders wanted to
make it even bigger, said Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor of facilities
planning and construction, who served as the University’s point man for that
expanding vision.
Shaping the vision
The vision was brought to fruition, Runberg said, thanks to the hundreds of Car-olina
alumni and supporters who matched the generosity of state voters with gifts
of their own.
Seizing upon the excitement the bond allocation had unleashed, leaders also
raised $22 million in private gifts through the Carolina First fundraising cam-paign.
Indirectly, Carolina scientists helped finance the science complex construc-tion
costs through the use of overhead receipts, facilities and administrative costs
recouped from the federal government in support of scientific research grants.
The first phase of the complex consisted of Max C. Chapman Jr. Hall, which
opened during the 2006–07 academic year, and the W. Lowry and Susan S. Cau-dill
Laboratories, which opened a year later.
Chapman Hall added classrooms and labs for the burgeoning departments of
physics and astronomy, marine sciences and mathematics. It was named for Max
Chapman, a 1966 economics alumnus and a legendary figure in the futures and
options industry on Wall Street.
The building includes a rooftop observatory deck and a remote observing con-trol
room for telescopes that UNC uses in partnership with Chile and South Africa.
A new fluids laboratory is shared by marine sciences and applied mathematics, and
a large wave tank allows researchers to study the behavior of water in hurricanes
and tsunamis.
Caudill Labs was named in honor of Lowry Caudill and his wife Susan. Caudill,
co-founder of Magellan Laboratories Inc., made a lead $3 million gift and led fund-raising
efforts for the building. At the building dedication ceremony, he said the
science complex would help keep North Carolina at the forefront of science and
technology, a key to the state’s economy.
“We have the leadership. We have the vision. We have the drive,” he said.
And Carolina was no longer hampered in the race for research dollars by being
stuck in a Model T.
The rise in research dollars
In fall 2008, the University dedicated the first building of the second phase of the
science complex, the Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Computer Science Building, adjoin-ing
Sitterson Hall.
Earlier that year, a demolition bulldozer took its first bite out of old Venable
Hall, which disappeared from the landscape one truckload at a time. Months of site
preparation followed before a construction crane even appeared.
Now, in the once-empty footprint are Venable Hall and Murray Hall, which
occupy adjoining wings of the same building. Together, the two halls house the
William R. Kenan Jr. Science Library, a portion of the laboratories for the chemis-try
department, classrooms and lecture halls, and the marine sciences department.
The final part of the science complex, which will begin once funding becomes
available, Runberg said, includes two additional buildings to be constructed in
what is now the parking lot next to the Murray Hall side plus the site of the current
ROTC building.
Thorp said expensive new buildings by themselves are not enough to make a
university great. A great university consists of high-quality faculty and students.
Fantastic buildings, though, make it possible for faculty and students to do their
best work – and to compete for research grants.
Andy Johns, associate vice chancellor for research, said that although no formal
analysis had been conducted, he believed there was a correlation between the
emergence of the Carolina Physical Science Complex and the continuing increase
in research awards.
“Most every unit that has occupied space in the science complex has seen growth
in research funding, with some units experiencing more significant growth than
others,” Johns said.
“Perhaps the most compelling piece of data supporting this argument is that
these units have more faculty and staff involved in research awards, which likely
wouldn’t be possible without having extra space.”
Michael Crimmins, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the
Mary Ann Smith Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, said chemistry, computer
science, physics and astronomy, mathematics and marine sciences are the primary
departments that have been affected to date.
“All have added research space as a result of the construction of the Physical
Science Complex,” he said. “All but marine sciences, which is a small unit, have
increased their research funding over the past three to four years. The increase in
both the amount and quality of research space has allowed some expansion in the
numbers of researchers in these areas and the ability to attract higher quality stu-dents
and faculty.”
For instance, the fluids lab in Chapman Hall has brought in significant new fund-ing
for the math and marine sciences departments, Crimmins said. In addition, the
new Energy Frontier Research Center, which was funded by the U.S. Department
of Energy for $17.5 million, will be housed in Venable and Murray halls.
In addition, the move of several research groups from Kenan temporarily
opened up laboratory space in that building, which will be renovated through a
$1.8 million stimulus grant from the National Science Foundation, he said. And
next spring, the Institute for Nanomedicine will house one or two new faculty
members in Venable and Chapman.
“For many years to come, the science complex will foster strong collaboration
and interdisciplinary research activities at the edges of traditional disciplines,”
Crimmins said.
Even as we celebrated the dedication of new buildings
called Venable and Murray halls on University Day, the
structure that occupied that ground for 83 years lives on.
Thanks to improved construction waste management
practices on campus, more than 60 percent of old Ven-able
was reused or recycled.
So parts of the historic building are all around – as
close as the new Venable and Murray halls and as far
away as Haiti:
n On the interior courtyard of the new science complex
buildings, chunks of granite from the stairs are set into
the low stone walls. Next to an archway, old bricks
make up part of a decorative lattice-work wall and
a pedestal built into the stone wall below. A bronze
plaque engraved with the names of donors who pur-chased
the old bricks for $5,000 or $1,000 will sit atop
the pedestal.
n At Kenan Labs, many lab fixtures were salvaged
for reuse.
n Across campus, slate roofing tiles and heating and air
conditioning controls and equipment will be used for
repairs and replacement.
n Look in almost any office on campus or in employees’
homes, since 6.5 tons of office furniture and equip-ment
went to the UNC Surplus Retail Store.
n At the new Dental Science building, still under con-struction,
the limestone door surrounds will be used
to frame new doorways.
n On the trails of Carolina North, concrete tiles were
used to stabilize trails.
n In the surrounding community, concrete and brick
rubble was used for road base.
n In Morehead City, office and lab furnishings were
trucked to the Institute of Marine Sciences for reuse.
n In new ceilings everywhere, 2 tons of ceiling tiles were
recycled by Armstrong World Industries.
n In Haiti, more than 11 tons of furniture and fixtures
– chairs, student desks, file cabinets, bookshelves and
so on – were salvaged and sent to the island nation
through Institution Recycling Network and Food for
the Poor, which was hired by the contractor to repur-pose
these items.
n Anywhere in the world, 376 tons of metal of various
kinds were sorted and recycled into anything from
aluminum cans to new steel girders.
Where’s old
Venable Hall?
The science
behind
the science complex
Far left, Chris Martens looks out the window of
his office in Venable and Murray halls as work-ers
put the final touches on the walkways below.
Below, W. Lowry and Susan S. Caudill Labora-tories.
Right, Max Chapman Jr. speaks at the
November 2006 dedication of the building that
bears his name.
Far left, Venable Hall and Murray Hall are pictured in the Carolina
Physical Science Complex. Left, granite blocks from the original
Venable Hall stairs were repurposed into the low stone walls at
Venable and Murray halls. Above, old Venable Hall, which was
demolished in 2008, was replaced by Venable and Murray halls.
8 Universi ty Gazet te
PlayMakers’ ‘Fences’ opens Oct. 27
PlayMakers Repertory Company will
continue its season Oct. 27–Nov. 14 with
“Fences,” August Wilson’s drama that
won every major prize when it debuted on
Broadway in 1987. “Fences” is part of Wil-son’s
legendary decade-by-decade cycle
of plays on the evolving black experience
in the 20th century, exploring particularly
what it was like to be black and male in
mid-century America.
As part of its programming, on Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. PlayMak-ers
will host The Vision Series: Directors in Conversation with
“Fences” director Seret Scott. Those interested in the creative
process are invited to the Paul Green Theatre for a behind-the-scenes
preview of the upcoming production and refreshments.
The Vision Series is free to the public, but reservations are
encouraged. Call 962-7529 to R.S.V.P.
Show times for “Fences” will be 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through
Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Nov. 6 and 2 p.m. Sundays. For a com-plete
schedule, more information on related programming and
to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-PLAY (7529) or visit www.
playmakersrep.org. Tickets are $10 to $45.
UWC fall program to focus on
female athletes
The University Woman’s Club fall program will be held at
9:30 a.m. Oct. 19 at Carmichael Arena. Speakers will be field
hockey coach Karen Shelton, women’s basketball coach Sylvia
Hatchell and Beth Miller, senior associate director of athletics.
The coaches will talk about their programs as well as women
athletes at UNC, and Miller will be available to discuss and
answer questions about Title IX and its impact on women and
UNC athletics. There will also be a tour of the newly renovated
Carmichael building. For information, contact Mary Howes
(942-3688 or howesmary@aol.com).
Smithies, Desai headline Jupiter Ball
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center will present its
own version of “Dancing With the Stars” Nov. 19 with the 2010
Jupiter Ball. Nobel Prize-winner Oliver Smithies and “Ameri-can
Idol” finalist Anoop Desai will be among the “stars” at the
annual black-tie benefit gala that benefits science education for
North Carolina school children.
The elegant evening will include a reception, a performance
by Desai, dinner, auction and stargazing. For more informa-tion,
refer to www.moreheadplanetarium.org/go/jupiter.
Late Night with Roy
ESPN “SportCenter” anchor and Car-olina
alumnus Stuart Scott will host Late
Night with Roy 2010 on Oct. 15 from
8 to 10:30 p.m. at the Smith Center.
The free event is the first chance to
see the 2010–11 Carolina men’s and
women’s basketball teams.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tar Heel
Express buses will run beginning at
6 p.m. from the Friday Center park-and-ride lot for $5 round
trip. http://bit.ly/9iQGZ9
LECTURES, SEMINARS, SYMPOSIA
n Oct. 15–16 – The Program in the Humanities and Human
Values will host a Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring
Bart D. Ehrman titled “Who Wrote the Bible? The Contro-versial
Claims of Modern Scholars.” The seminar will begin
at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2603 of the School of Government
and will continue through noon on Oct. 16. Registration is
required, with fee. See adventuresinideas.unc.edu or call
962-1544.
n Oct. 19–20 – The Center for Urban and Regional Studies
and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science will be
co-sponsors of the Triangle Census Research Data Center’s
Third Annual Research Conference and Workshops. Among
the speakers will be Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Cen-sus
Bureau, and Barbara Entwisle, interim vice chancellor for
research and economic development. The event is free, but
registration is required. http://bit.ly/bJMDln
n Oct. 21–22 – The North Carolina Translational and Clinical
Sciences Institute in collaboration with Pfizer Pharmaceuti-cals
will host an Investigator Training Program at the Cen-ter
for School Leadership Development, 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
on Oct. 21 and 7:30 a.m.–1 p.m. on Oct. 22. Training is free,
but registration is required: http://bit.ly/aruITd. For more
information, call 843-2883 or 843-2678.
n Oct. 24 – Michael McConkey, owner of Edible Landscapes
nursery in Afton, Va., will speak about “Native Edibles for an
Edible Landscape” as part of the 11th Annual Jenny Elder
Fitch Memorial Lecture. It will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at the
N.C. Botanical Garden’s Visitor Education Center. Register
for the free talk by calling 962-0522. ncbg.unc.edu
n Oct. 26 – Richard Cante, associate professor of communica-tion
studies, will speak about “Post-Cinematic Theatricality,
Post-Theatrical Cinema and Other Enactments of Circuitry
Between Contemporary (Global) Media” as part of the Furst
Forum in Comparative Literature. The lecture will be held in
Donovan Lounge at 4 p.m.
n Oct. 27 – The Office of Global Health and the UNC Gill-ings
School of Global Public Health will sponsor the Global
Health Seminar, “Hopeworks for Women: Microcredit and
Health in North Carolina,” in Rosenau Hall from 12:30 to
1:30 p.m. www.sph.unc.edu/globalhealth/events
n Oct. 29 – The Center for Faculty Excellence and ITS Teach-ing
and Learning will sponsor a Teaching with Technol-ogy
showcase, “Shift + Control + Teach,” that will be held
from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Carolina Club in the
Hill Alumni Center. For information and to register, see
http://bit.ly/bEYQ7D.
n Oct. 29–30 – The Program in the Humanities and Human
Values will present a seminar, “Historic Horrors: Case Stud-ies
in Panic and Mass Hysteria,” in which four historians will
News in b r i e f
Jenny Levy, left, head coach of Carolina’s women’s lacrosse, motivates about 150 division leaders and team captains dur-ing
the Oct. 5 kickoff for the 2010 Carolina Cares, Carolina Shares charitable giving campaign. In addition to Levy, Chan-cellor
Holden Thorp, Linda Carlisle, secretary of the North Carolina Department for Cultural Resources, and Brenda Malo-ne,
vice chancellor for human resources, spoke to the group. Carolina’s campaign, part of the State Employees Combined
Campaign (SECC), runs through Nov. 18. While Carolina has always been a major contributor to the SECC, this year’s focus
is on employee participation. “Any amount employees can give, no matter how small, is appreciated,” Malone said to the
gathering. More information is available from each department’s team captain, or visit www.unc.edu/secc.
Carolina Cares, Carolina Shares
October 14, 2010 9
discuss monsters, screaming masses
and panics past and present – just
in time for Halloween. The program
will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Center
for School Leadership Development
and will continue through Oct. 30 at
1 p.m. Registration is required, with
fee. See adventuresinideas.unc.edu or
call 962-1544.
DEADLINES TO WATCH
n Applications are due by Nov. 10 for
the Institute for the Arts and Humani-ties
2011-12 Academic Leadership
Program. The ALP helps prepare
and support current and emerging
academic leaders throughout the
University through a series of activi-ties
to help them develop leadership
skills, clarify their career commit-ments,
build a leadership network
within the campus and extend their
contacts to other leaders beyond the
university. All tenured faculty at UNC are eligible. http://bit.
ly/9k2oVE
n Applications are due by Nov. 15 for the Carolina Women’s
Center fall 2011 and spring 2012 Faculty Scholar program.
One Faculty Scholar will be chosen for each semester. Fac-ulty
Scholars will be engaged in a project for publication,
presentation, exhibition, composition or performance that is
related to the center’s mission.
Download the application in the forms section on the cen-ter’s
website: womenscenter.unc.edu. For more information,
contact Donna Bickford (843-5620 or dbickford@unc.edu).
READINGS
n Oct. 28 – Bland Simpson
and Beaufort photographer
Scott Taylor will launch the
publication of their new
book in the Wilson Special
Collections Library. “The
Coasts of Carolina: Sea-side
to Sound Country,”
published by UNC Press,
is a portrait of life along the
North Carolina oceanfront and interior shores. A reception
will begin at 5 p.m., followed by the program at 5:45 p.m.
http://bit.ly/aNVZAe
n Oct. 28 – Jeffery Beam will read from “Gospel Earth” at the
N.C. Botanical Garden’s Visitor Education Center from 7 to
9 p.m. Call to register: 962-0522.
SCREENINGS
n Oct. 15 – The premiere of “Brother Towns/Pueblos Her-manos”
will begin at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the FedEx
Global Education Center. Following the screening, film-maker
Charles Thompson will answer questions about the
film – a story of two towns in Guatemala and Florida linked
by immigration, family and work. http://bit.ly/BrTA7
n Oct. 23 – “Down Home,” which shares stories of Jewish life
in North Carolina from pioneering settlers to contempo-rary
diverse communities, will be shown as part of the Syl-via
and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in
the American South. A panel discussion will follow the film,
which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall. www.unc.edu/
ccjs/events.html
Williams, Daugherty to headline
Fast Break Against Cancer
Two men who know more than a little about Tar Heel bas-ketball
– Roy Williams and Brad Daugherty – will headline
the sixth annual Fast Break Against Cancer fundraiser Oct. 15
on center court of the Smith Center. The breakfast, provided
by the Carolina Inn, will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Men’s basketball assistant coaches and Woody Durham, the
“voice of the Tar Heels,” also will participate. Durham will lead
a live auction for one-of-a-kind items with a Tar Heel twist. The
event is sponsored by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Can-cer
Center. For information and to order tickets, see uncline-berger.
org/gift/fastbreak/2010.
Nominations open for Summer
Reading Program book
Suggested titles are due by Oct. 15 for the Summer Reading
Program. In a new initiative, incoming students at both Caro-lina
and Duke will read the same book, selected by a joint com-mittee
comprising faculty, staff and students of both schools.
To learn more and to make a suggestion, visit the Carolina
Summer Reading Program website: www.unc.edu/srp.
UNC-Duke projects funded by
new initiative
A $150,000 initiative that promotes projects developed by
students from Duke and Carolina launched Oct. 4. The Kenan-
Biddle Partnership is funded by the William R. Kenan Jr. Chari-table
Trust and The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
The partnership will promote student-initiated,
inter-institutional projects designed to
strengthen established collaborations
or encourage new ones. The projects
may also contribute to the scholarly or
public service missions of both cam-puses.
Each project proposal must have
a student or students who serve as the
project initiator.
Applications will be accepted through
Nov. 15 for proposals from both cam-puses
that encourage collaborative arts,
sciences and humanities projects. Each
project must include at least one public
exhibition, presentation or performance.
Preference will be given to proposals
made jointly by students from both insti-tutions.
http://bit.ly/b5LPWI
Kids Rock! Tennis
Campus Recreation will give kids
exposure to the fundamentals of tennis
using the Quick Start method during
the Kids Rock! program Oct. 16 from
10 a.m. to noon at the South Campus Recreation Complex. To
RSVP for the free event, contact Aaron Stern (ajstern@email.
unc.edu) by Oct. 14.
UNC rises to 16th in R&D spending
A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education
ranked the University 16th among “The Top 100 Institutions
in Federally Financed R&D Expenditures, 2009.” The Univer-sity
moved up seven places over a five-year period, with spend-ing
last year of more than $431 million.
The rankings of academic research and development spend-ing
were based on a report provided by the National Science
Foundation of both public and private universities.
To see the Chronicle article, refer to http://bit.ly/a8Qx1C.
For the Record
n The Sept. 29 Gazette misspelled the name of Charles M.
Shaffer Jr., vice president for institutional advancement at
the Westminster Schools, who was one of five recipients of
the Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Awards on Univer-sity
Day.
n In 1955, LeRoy Frasier, John Brandon and Ralph Frasier
were the first black undergraduates to attend Carolina, but
the University’s first black students were Harvey Beech and
Kenneth Lee, who were admitted to the School of Law four
years earlier, in 1951.
The Gazette regrets both errors.
NEWS IN BRIEF Submissions
Next issue includes events from Oct. 28 to Nov. 17.
Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m., Mon., Oct. 18.
E-mail gazette@unc.edu. The Gazette events page
includes only items of general interest geared toward
a broad audience. For complete listings of events, see
the Carolina Events Calendars at events.unc.edu.
Artist Michael Brown works on restoration of “The Parade,” a mural he originally painted in
1997 to reflect the characters of Franklin Street. Funded by the University, the restoration of the
mural was part of an overall improvement of the exterior of the Hill Building on Porthole Alley.
Many of Brown’s other 19 Chapel Hill murals also are being restored through the Painted Walls
Project. To see photos of other murals, refer to http://bit.ly/9uMhpQ.
University would have a practice in place to examine relationships that might exist.
Thorp said he has had many conversations with Football Coach Butch Davis about his knowl-edge
of contact between former Associate Football Coach John Blake and agent Gary Wichard.
He said there was still more work to do in understanding why the head football coach was unaware
of that contact.
Another faculty member expressed concern about the proper balance between athletics and aca-demics
in higher education.
“That is the thing that keeps me up at night more than the individual details,” Thorp said. “The
hardest thing is to … ask yourself what’s right for UNC-Chapel Hill. I’m really more interested in
that, because if we manage that the right way, we have an opportunity to do what’s right for us.”
Thorp said he was most concerned about creating an environment for students that allowed
them to get the best education. His second concern was to make sure academic values take priority
over athletics as the University earns its way back to a leadership position nationally.
Data security
In closed session, the council discussed a faculty disciplinary issue involving the responsibility
of a principal investigator to protect the sensitive personal information of research participants.
In open session, Larry Conrad, vice chancellor for information technology and chief informa-tion
officer, talked about the importance of encrypting sensitive data of all forms, particularly when
people are working from a laptop.
A summary of the University’s information security policies, including key requirements for
protecting sensitive data, is available at help.unc.edu/CCM3_020433. Specific information about
encrypting e-mail is available at help.unc.edu/CCM3_020818.
Appreciative inquiry
Faculty Chair McKay Coble discussed restructuring each meeting to allow more engagement
between council members and presenters, based on feedback from the appreciative inquiry exer-cise
during last month’s meeting.
Coble asked that presenters provide a summary of their work in addition to posting reports
online and allow for questions after their presentations.
The meetings will end with an open question-and-answer session focusing on any topic, includ-ing
the chance, at Thorp’s suggestion, to “buzz the chancellor.”
Athletics reports
Later in the meeting, Steve Reznick, chair of the Faculty Athletics Committee, presented the
committee’s 2009–10 report. The committee informs the faculty and advises the chancellor on
all athletics-related issues, and Reznick said it was important for faculty members to learn about
intercollegiate athletics so they could make good decisions.
“I wish everyone had the opportunity to serve on this committee,” he said. “I have learned
so much about how athletics is part of the broader University and creates opportunities in
other areas.”
Jack Evans, Carolina’s faculty athletics representative for the past 15 years, presented that
2009–10 report on behalf of current representative Lissa Broome.
Evans talked about the importance of the representative’s role in having immediate access
both to the chancellor and the athletics director, as well as visibility with the coaching staff
“so the coaches understand there is someone representing the academic side of the life of
student-athletes.”
Both reports are online at www.unc.edu/faculty/faccoun/agendas/2010-11/A10FC10.html.
10 Universi ty Gazet te
Benefits enrollment continues
through Oct. 29
The annual enrollment for University and NCFlex ben-efits
has begun and will continue through Oct. 29. Employees
should review their current benefit elections and enroll in those
benefits that best suit their needs.
Highlights to this year’s enrollment include:
n Group Term Life provided by the University and underwrit-ten
by MetLife will see employee rates decrease an average of
5 percent. In addition, there are enhanced coverage levels for
employees and their dependents.
n Core Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance is
provided by NCFlex at no cost to the employee. Employees
receive $10,000 of coverage but must go online and actively
elect this benefit. Employees who enrolled in this benefit last
year do not need to re-enroll.
n Health-care spending accounts will not reimburse employees
for over-the-counter medications in 2011 unless these medi-cations
are prescribed by a physician, so employees should
budget cautiously for this account for 2011. The account
requires re-enrollment every year.
n Dependent Day Care spending account requires re-enroll-ment
every year.
The University’s benefits enrollment site, http://bit.ly/
apC2N1, has additional information and links to benefit-spe-cific
topics. For additional information, call 962-3071.
‘Kick Up Your Heels’ on Oct. 22
Get ready to “Kick Up Your Heels” at Carolina’s 2010
Employee Appreciation Day, Oct. 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Enjoy free food and entertainment in the Pit and the F.P.G.
Student Union.
Plan to attend the Employee Talent Show and the UNC
Department Fair, and participate in DJ and karaoke, games and
other entertainment – plus a free movie screening.
Employees also can take advantage of the 25 percent dis-count
on Bulls Head books, Carolina logo items and medical
apparel at Student Stores. Flu shots also will be available for
employees.
Employee Appreciation Day, hosted by the Office of Human
Resources, is a work-time event with advance approval from an
employee’s supervisor.
human
resources briefs
Faculty Council from page 3
From left, Igor Munteanu, Moldovan ambassador to the United States, and
Asif Chaudhry, United States ambassador to Moldova, share a moment at
the Old Well Oct. 7 with Ron Strauss, executive associate provost, and Bruce
Carney, executive vice chancellor and provost. The ambassadors visited cam-pus
to learn more about the history of the North Carolina–Moldova State
Partnership Program. The program, which links U.S. states with partner coun-tries
through the U.S. Army National Guard, reflects the guard’s evolving inter-national
affairs mission.
The ambassadors met with faculty, staff and students from the UNC Center
for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, Gillings School of Global Public
Health and the School of Dentistry and School of Medicine, and they partici-pated
in a videoconference with East Carolina University faculty members.
In addition, Munteanu and Chaudhry also met with Carney and Strauss to
discuss ways that the Carolina community might become more involved in Mol-dova,
specifically in the areas of business, information technology and educa-tion.
Learn more: http://bit.ly/9QH0nI.
U.S.–Moldovan ambassadors visit UNC
Linda Kastleman
October 14, 2010 11
“You are an exemplar for the nation in how faculty should be
involved in athletics.”
Not only was Evans Carolina’s faculty athletics representa-tive
to the NCAA and ACC from 1995 to 2010, he served as
president of the ACC in 1998-99 and again in 2006-07, and
served on the NCAA Management Council from 2001 to 2007.
Since 2002, he has been a contributor to the NCAA’s academic
reform efforts and has served on the Committee on Academic
Performance since 2004.
In January, Evans received the Department of Athletics’
Priceless Gem Award in honor of his long service to the Univer-sity,
the town and the state.
“Jack Evans always represented what was best about athlet-ics
and UNC,” Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser said in his
nomination letter. “He embodied integrity, trustworthiness
and a commitment to excellence.”
Because of that commitment to excellence, combined with
tenacity and patience, Moeser in 2006 appointed Evans to head
the development of Carolina North.
“Four years ago, if someone had told me that the (Chapel
Hill) Town Council would unanimously approve a Carolina
North development agreement, I would have thought they
were crazy,” Moeser said. “Many people worked to bring about
this result, but Jack Evans led the process. To me, this is a won-derful
example of faculty leadership and service.”
In accepting the award, Evans said he had been fortunate to
be given an assignment from every chancellor since Taylor.
“I’m grateful for those opportunities because my sense of the
University’s service to the people of the state has only deep-ened,”
he said.
evans from page 5
The final meeting of the Energy Task Force
began on a positive note Oct. 5.
“I want to share some exciting news,” Chan-cellor
Holden Thorp told the group after
thanking them for their service since Febru-ary.
“Our greenhouse gas emissions in 2009
were 20 percent lower than they were in 2008,
and we’re really proud of that.” Thorp’s refer-ence
was to the newly released 2009 green-house
gas inventory for the University, now
available online at www.climate.unc.edu/
GHGInventory.
Thorp singled out Tim Toben, chair of the
task force and also of the N.C. Energy Policy
Council, and Molly Diggins, state director of
the N.C. chapter of the Sierra Club, for spe-cial
praise, and also thanked the students in
the Beyond Coal campaign who attended
the meeting.
“Thank you for pushing us,” Thorp said to
task force members, “and for helping us under-stand
what more we can do.”
The task force then began to review a set of
draft recommendations related to energy effi-ciency
on campus.
As student task force member Elinor
Benami read from a draft of student recom-mendations,
including increasing energy lit-eracy
and creating a model dorm room or lab,
Toben expressed concern about how the rec-ommendations
might be implemented. “We
need to make a home for each of these efforts,”
he said.
Student-led initiatives are especially at
risk because of the lack of continuity from
one class to another. From the audience, stu-dent
Chris Lazinski of the Roosevelt Institute
and the Renewable Energy Special Projects
Committee encouraged “having institutional
support and stability for the student groups.”
The task force will spend the next few weeks
preparing its final set of recommendations to
be presented to Thorp by the end of October.
The 10-member group set an ambitious
pace from the start, issuing a set of six interim
recommendations related to energy supply
– including that the University end the use of
coal on campus by May 2020.
To see the minutes and presentations from
previous meetings, refer to www.unc.edu/
chan/chancellors/thorp_holden/energy
taskforce.php.
Energy task force to give final recommendations by the end of October
‘A look
back
in time’
The Black Faculty and Staff Caucus, also known as the Carolina
Black Caucus, invites retired administrator Carl Smith, left, and retired School of Social
Work professor Hortense McClinton to share their memories during the Oct. 6 meeting,
“A Look Back in Time.” McClinton was the first black professor at Carolina and Smith
was the assistant to five different provosts spanning more than 25 years.
Also pictured are current caucus chair Deborah Stroman, center right, and, at right,
Charles Daye, Henry Brandis Professor of Law and one of the founders of the caucus,
who joined the panel to talk about the University climate that led to the development
of the organization.
In addition to Stroman, the current leadership team includes Chris Faison, Shandra
Jones, Debra Watkins, Angelette Cheek, O.J. McGhee, Herb Richmond and Nakenge
Robertson. Refer to www.unc.edu/cbc for information about the caucus.
Ervin from page 5
Faculty Council at its Oct. 8 meeting.
For information about Ervin’s new position, including com-ments
from Georgia Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson, refer to
http://bit.ly/9Brsz1.
Carney said he had made an offer for someone to serve as
interim director of the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
and was optimistic the person would accept. He also reminded fac-ulty
and staff that the University’s diversity assessment was under
way and encouraged people to share their views.
Carolina mourns death of
Rameses’ caretaker, Hogan
Rob Hogan, the owner and caretaker of Rameses, Carolina’s
blue-horned mascot, died Oct. 8 following complications related
to an injury he suffered Sept. 15 on his farm in Carrboro. The
54-year-old was part of the Hogan family that has taken care of a
series of Carolina mascots since 1924.
Hogan was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a condition in
which injured muscle tissue releases toxins that can damage the
kidneys. He underwent operations nearly every day to remove
parts of his hip, leg and abdomen, but earlier this month devel-oped
problems with a blood clot in his liver and additional fluid
in his lungs and abdomen.
A memorial service was held yesterday in the George Watts
Hill Alumni Center. Donations may be made to the Conservation
Trust for North Carolina (www.ctnc.org) or the Orange-Durham
Cattlemen’s Association, 306 E. Revere Rd., Hillsborough 27278.
To read more about Hogan, refer to http://bit.ly/9ztU74.
12 Universi ty Gazet te
It was youthful idealism – the belief that he
held the power to change the world – that first
drew Richard Harrill to the Campus Y when
he was a student at Carolina.
It was that same idealism – tempered
and honed by 18 years of experience around
the globe – that drew him back one year
ago to become its director after Virginia
Carson retired.
“I could not have found a better moment,”
he said.
Among the reasons for that, he said, are the
lasting achievements Carson created during
her 10-year tenure, beginning with her abil-ity
to rally support for a $2.6 million capital
improvement program to restore the cher-ished,
historic Campus Y building that had
deteriorated to the point of being on the brink
of demolition.
Carson also brought the Y back to promi-nence
by raising the level of excitement and
involvement among students. Today, the
Campus Y boasts some 2,000 student mem-bers
who are engaged in about 30 different
committees working to address a variety of
social-justice issues, from public health to
homelessness to education.
“Her spirit and her passion for working
with young people just attracted students like
a magnet,” Harrill said. “As a result of that, I
inherited a Campus Y that may be as strong as
it has even been in its history.”
It is partly in celebration of that history –
and partly in anticipation of the challenges
and opportunities that lie ahead – that the
Campus Y will host a three-day program this
weekend called “Carolina Change-Makers:
150 Years of Innovations in Social Justice.”
The event, which kicks off Friday, is spon-sored
in partnership with the APPLES Service-
Learning Program and the Student Coalition
for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE)
and will feature motivating talks, oral histories
and presentations by the Campus Y’s diverse
student groups.
Alumni of the Campus Y have been invited,
but the event is really for the entire campus
community to celebrate the Y’s rich history as
it looks ahead, Harrill said.
“We want to blow the walls off this place and
bring in people from all over campus so they
can see that we want to be a partner with them
and want to be relevant in a lot of the differ-ent
conversations around campus about social
innovation and changing the world for the bet-ter,”
Harrill said.
“It’s not just about discovering the Y.
It’s about building excitement by getting peo-ple
involved.”
‘Conscience of
the campus’
Harrill, who graduated from Carolina in
1991 with a bachelor’s degree in political sci-ence
and a law degree seven years later, served
as student co-president of the Y. He credits
UNC President Emeritus William C. Friday
with devising the Y’s campus moniker.
“Bill Friday said we were the nerve center in
that we were the place where stuff happened,
the little building off to the side of South
Building that served as the ‘conscience of the
campus,’” Harrill said.
Before Harrill began work
toward his law degree, he
served as a Peace Corps vol-unteer
in Veszprem, Hungary,
from 1993 to 1995. There, he
taught English and American
history at Vetesi Albert High
School and the University of
Veszprem, and he coached
and played semi-professional
basketball.
In 1996, he co-founded
Youth Services International
in Washington D.C., and
Budapest, Hungary.
From 2003 to 2007, Har-rill
served as director of the
Bard College Program on Glo-balization
and International
Affairs. Based in Manhattan,
the service-learning program
allows 85 undergraduates or
college graduates from around the world to
combine the study of civil society, interna-tional
law, political economy, public health,
ethics and journalism with professional
internships.
He also led the duplication of the program
at Central European University in Budapest
and in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the Uni-versity
of Witwatersrand.
Before being named director of the Y in
summer 2009, Harrill served as the director for
Europe of the Public Interest Law Institute in
Budapest. The institute is an international non-governmental
organization whose mission is to
advance human rights around the world.
Global challenges
Harrill sees the Y as one of several hybrid
organizations on campus that have always
had “one foot in the classroom and one foot in
the community” and are uniquely positioned
to respond to Chancellor Holden Thorp’s
call for the University to help solve the
world’s problems.
“This has been a fabulous opportunity for
me to come back to an institution I love at a
moment when there is a chancellor and a
provost and a new vice chancellor for student
affairs who are all thinking about so many of
the things I am also passionate about,” he said.
If the University is successful in answering
Thorp’s call, Harrill said, it would not only
mean changing the world – but changing the
way students learn as well.
“As we call upon students to try to solve
the world’s problems, we must give them the
tools they need to be able to measure results,”
Harrill said. “We also want for students,
through their volunteerism and engagement,
to develop life skills that would be valuable
to them no matter what professions they
choose.”
Harrill lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and
4-year-old daughter.
To learn more about this weekend’s celebra-tion,
refer to campus-y.unc.edu/index.php/
contact-us/377-anniversary-homepage.
MATTHEW KOESTER
Richard Harrill
is motivated by
the how and ‘Y’
of social change

Heather Munroe-Blum believes innovation at Carolina is as
old as the University itself.
Innovation began when Carolina did, 217 years ago, with
the rise of a public university predicated on the then radical notion that
the public had an innate intelligence that, if unlocked, would greatly
benefit the state, she said.
Then, midway through the 20th century, Carolina helped co-found a
second great innovation – Research Triangle Park – a model that would
become the archetype for economic development around the world.
More recently, the Carolina Covenant – which has enabled qualified
students from low-income families to graduate debt-free – is another
innovation that works, as evidenced by several imitators, said Munroe-
Blum, principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in Montreal,
who was the guest speaker for the traditional University Day convocation.
Munroe-Blum, who earned a doctorate with distinction in epide-miology
from Carolina in 1983, has dedicated her career to advancing
higher education, science and innovation in Canada. She has advised
governments around the world on the role of universities in advancing
international competitiveness.
“Now, more than ever, the United States needs innovative
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Faculty members gather around the Old Well prior to the procession for the University
Day convocation on Oct. 12.
Heather Munroe-Blum, principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in Montreal,
delivers the University Day address in Memorial Hall.
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Jefferson
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Carolina North annual report
presented at public meeting
Carolina North Executive Director Jack Evans
confirmed that the Innovation Center is “not
likely to happen” because of economic condi-tions.
He spoke about the center as part of his
public presentation of the first Carolina North
Development Agreement Annual Report at the
Chapel Hill Town Hall on Sept. 29.
The Innovation Center, incubation space for
faculty and staff members to develop ideas for
the marketplace, was to have been built by a
private developer on University land, with the
University leasing a portion of the space. But the
downturn in the economy has meant this model
did not work to the mutual benefit of both par-ties,
and no further negotiations are under way.
However, incubator space for innovators
could be part of a future research building at
Carolina North, Evans said. Penny Rich, a mem-ber
of the Chapel Hill Town Council, asked
Evans if that research building would be on the
town’s tax rolls. “Its activities could be taxable,”
Evans said, if the building is owned by a private
developer.
Another question from the audience related
to the timetable for the closing of Horace Wil-liams
Airport.
“The ability to move Med Air operations
depends on the hangar completion at RDU
airport in June 2011,” Evans said. “But we may
not close the airport immediately after moving
Med Air.”
Other factors to be considered in timing the
closing are the growth rates of trees in the flight
path but not on University property, and the
sites of the new School of Law and research
buildings, which may be on or near the current
runway.
Other discussion at the presentation focused
on conservation easements and mitigation strat-egies
for wetlands areas as part of the Universi-ty’s
permit application to the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers. A second public information ses-sion
on this permit application will be held later
this year.
Comments and questions from the presenta-tion
will be incorporated into a report to the
Town Council at its Oct. 11 meeting, said Town
Manager Roger Stancil.
Earlier this week, Chancellor Holden Thorp shared his annual online video address
with the Carolina community. He reflected on the University’s successes, despite
ongoing budget challenges, and talked about bold planning for the future.
“This economy has made this a very tough year for most universities. But I would
put Carolina up against any campus in the nation for how we responded to the difficult
times and moved forward,” he said. “By almost any measure, we had an excellent year.”
Thorp cited the impressive quality of the incoming class, the record $803 million in
research funding Carolina faculty attracted, the University being ranked 30th among
the world’s top 200 universities and the continued strength of alumni giving (the Uni-versity
received $268 million in gifts).
One of the biggest challenges, he said, is the still-bleak budget outlook, with North
Carolina facing a shortfall exceeding $3 billion for next fiscal year. In response, all
UNC system schools have been asked to prepare budget scenarios of 5 percent and
10 percent. And here, administrators are using the Carolina Counts initiative to help
pinpoint efficiencies in campus operations.
Thorp called for bold planning for the future so the University can seize opportuni-ties
when the economy recovers.
“Planning is a community activity here,” he said. “Engaged students, faculty and
staff have helped develop ideas that led to dramatic changes.”
For example, the development of the Carolina Physical Science Complex (see
related story on page 6) is an example of multidisciplinary collaborations, and through
the University Cancer Research Fund, the University is better able to treat cancer
patients and seek a cure for the disease.
Going forward, the new Academic Plan “will be our to-do list for the next decade
or so,” he said, and will affirm how Carolina can best serve both students and society.
Also, the recently unveiled roadmap, Innovate@Carolina: Important Ideas for
a Better World, outlines how the University can produce basic knowledge with the
highest impact.
“We want to create an environment where people feel comfortable taking risks and
trying to address new problems,” Thorp said. “The goal is to engage everyone on cam-pus,
regardless of discipline.”
To see the video, refer to http://bit.ly/cU5izX.
Thorp looks back
at successes
and challenges
of the past year
on the web
Ferris specializes in kidneys
and ... wedding cakes
Photojournalist Nathan Clendenin spent a day with
Maria Ferris, the clinical associate professor of medi-cine
who directs the kidney dialysis and transplant
programs at UNC Hospitals, and who also has a flair
http://bit.ly/ddm34C for making beautiful wedding cakes.
‘The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes’
Margarite Nathe wrote a story for the fall issue of Endeav-ors
about Randi Davenport, executive director of the
Johnston Center, her son Chase and the book Davenport
wrote about him that, in part, chronicles the battle to
diagnose and treat his neuro-biological illness.
http://bit.ly/c1tutF
Ackland’s Kass appears on
‘North Carolina People’
Emily Kass, director of the Ackland Art Museum, spoke
with UNC president emeritus William Friday recently
on his WUNC-TV program, “North Carolina People.”
Kass discussed the Ackland’s exhibitions and program-http://
bit.ly/bS2azE ming as well as the museum’s goals for the future.
October 14, 2010 3
The University Library and the Health Sci-ences
Library will participate in the fourth global
Open Access Week Oct. 18–22 by launching the
2010–11 Open Access Authors’ Fund. The fund
will offer a total of $10,000 to UNC researchers and
students to cover charges related to publishing an
article in an open access journal.
Also planned are a series of events and open
access myth-busting information posted on the
libraries’ websites.
Open access refers to a range of initiatives
designed to share scholarly information, which
typically has been available only through special-ized
journals, whose costs can run to the tens of
thousands of dollars.
Open access offers the promise of free, imme-diate
access to the results of scholarly research,
coupled with the right of researchers to subse-quently
use those results as needed for schol-arship.
The University Library and the Health
Sciences Library actively promote open access
on the Carolina campus. Several opportunities
will mark Open Access Week 2010:
n Open Access Authors’ Fund 2010–11 – UNC
faculty, post-doctoral researchers and gradu-ate
or professional students may apply for
funding of up to $1,000 to publish an article
in an open access journal, with $10,000 to
be distributed during the current fiscal year.
Support is provided by the University Library
and Health Sciences Library. Refer to http://
bit.ly/bEj0wQ.
n Visualizing Copyright: Debunking Open
Access and Copyright Myths about Film
and Visual Media – On Oct. 18, from
10:30 a.m. to noon in Wilson Library, a panel
discussion led by faculty member Paul Jones,
director of ibiblio.org, will focus on the use
of visual media in academic instruction and
the scholarly enterprise. Topics include sources
creators can use, uses for instruction, and
designing and presenting works to maximize
their benefits.
n New Models of Scholarly Publishing –
On Oct. 21, from 9 to 11 a.m. in Perkins Library
at Duke University, a panel will discuss expe-riences
with open access publishing and its
impact. Speakers will include Melanie Dunshee
from the Duke Law Library, Mohamed Noor
from Duke’s Department of Biology, Mira
Waller from Project Euclid and Bora Zivkovic
from the Public Library of Science.
n Busted! Open Access Myth of the Day – Learn
the truth about open access by visiting the
Health Sciences Library website (www.hsl.unc.
edu) every day of the week.
For more about open access events in the area,
refer to http://bit.ly/9az0OF. For information
about Open Access Week, refer to www.openac-essweek.
org.
Libraries’ Open
Access Week
begins Oct. 18
A bad economy has created what Chan-cellor
Holden Thorp has described as a
“new normal” for the University in terms
of the amount of money available each
year – and the care necessary to squeeze
full value out of every dollar.
On Oct. 6, Larry Conrad, vice chan-cellor
for information technology and
chief information officer, reviewed with
Employee Forum members some of the
ways Information Technology Services
(ITS) has responded to the challenge.
Through Carolina Counts, the
University’s systemic approach to stream-line
operations based on recommendations
from the 2009 Bain & Company report,
10 top-level administrators – called proj-ect
champions – are responding to recom-mendations
within their areas of responsi-bility.
Conrad is the project champion for
information technology.
The Bain study, Conrad said, estimated
that ITS had the potential to save $12 mil-lion
to $19 million a year from its budget.
Conrad said he had pressed the consul-tants
to explain the methodology used
to reach those figures and it is not clear
whether these number are accurate.
“But it is clear that there are opportuni-ties
for savings,” Conrad said.
Carolina Counts has identified 32 proj-ects
that could help the University reach
that goal by directly or indirectly reducing
information technology costs.
Conrad said he pushed to create the
Carolina Counts IT Partnership Program
to drive the adoption of some of these
projects within affected campus units.
He is leading one project that calls for
reducing overhead and improving the effi-ciency
of the IT support organizations. As
of July 1, he said, this initiative had pro-duced
savings of $6 million, and adminis-trators
anticipate saving another $1 million
by the end of the fiscal year.
Other recently completed projects
include one to provide well-defined IT
security policies, standards and services
for the campus, Conrad said, and one
to reduce the use of on-call pay. There is
no way to quantify the savings improved
security measures might produce, because
future savings will come from averting
potential crises, Conrad said, but his divi-sion
expects the on-call pay reduction to
save more than $700,000 a year.
One key to the success of the initiatives
is involving the campus community as the
initiatives are developed and letting people
know how changes would affect them,
Conrad said.
For additional information about
Carolina Counts IT projects, refer
to carolinacounts.unc.edu/projects/
initiatives-projects.
In other forum matters, members voted
to have Danny Nguyen, chair of the Leg-islative
Action Committee, attend an
upcoming meeting of the State Personnel
Commission, which will consider pro-posed
changes to the University’s SPA
Grievance Policy.
Nguyen’s charge is to affirm for the
record, based on an earlier forum resolu-tion,
changes the forum likes and dislikes
about the proposal. If approved later this
month, the revised grievance procedure
would go into effect in January.
Employee Forum
Conrad discusses ITS cost-saving measures
The question most on people’s minds about the NCAA and
University investigation into possible agent violations and aca-demic
misconduct of the football team is: When will it be over?
At the Oct. 8 Faculty Council meeting, Chancellor Holden
Thorp said he understood that people want an answer to that
question, but it is the hardest one to provide.
“We’re stuck in the middle, doing what’s right, but not hav-ing
a logical way to end the weekly suspense about who is going
to play,” he said. “I’m sad that intercollegiate athletics has taken
attention away from the important work we do.”
The NCAA investigation is in the early stages, Thorp said.
To illustrate his point, he held up a sheet of paper covered with
a flowchart outlining the NCAA’s process and pointed to a spot
about an inch from the top. “That’s where we are now,” he said.
On Monday, three players involved in the inquiry became ex-
Tar Heels. The NCAA declared Greg Little and Robert Quinn
permanently ineligible. The University said both players violated
agent benefits, preferential treatment and ethical conduct rules.
UNC dismissed Marvin Austin from the football program for the
same reasons, based on recent findings in the investigation, and did
not submit Austin’s case to the NCAA for reinstatement. (Current
information about the investigation and player status is available on
the Department of Athletics website, tarheelblue.cstv.com.)
At the council meeting, Thorp explained that the investigation
involves agent violations as well as academic misconduct, and
some students are involved in both aspects of the investigation.
The University and NCAA are looking at each individual student-athlete’s
situation.
The NCAA gave the University approval to lead the probe into
possible academic misconduct involving a former undergraduate
tutor and student-athletes and is working with the University in
that process. The University discovered that issue while investi-gating,
with the NCAA, potential agent violations.
Any evidence about possible Honor Code violations has been
turned over to the Student Attorney General, who is following
the University’s 130-year-old student-run process for dealing with
academic misconduct, Thorp said. That means some student-athletes
cleared to play by the NCAA will not play while going
through the judicial process.
Because of federal privacy law, the University is working to
protect the identity of the students involved in the investigation,
Thorp said.
“Intercollegiate athletics is important to us; it’s important to
our students to be able to put on a Carolina uniform and represent
us as varsity players,” he said. “But winning is not part of the pri-mary
work of the University; students are part of the primary work
of the University.”
The Faculty Athletics Committee met earlier in the week about
creating an environment where student-athletes can succeed in
the classroom, Thorp said. Bobbi Owen, senior associate dean for
undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences, and
John Blanchard, senior associate athletics director for student-athlete
services, agreed to lead an assessment of the academic
support program for student-athletes including its mission, staff
and resources.
One faculty member asked about processes to regulate contact
between the coaching staff and sports agents.
Athletics Director Dick Baddour said, going forward, the
Chancellor updates faculty about ongoing
NCAA and University football investigation
See Faculty Council page 10
4 Universi ty Gazet te
Thinking boldly is nothing new for Chancellor Holden Thorp.
During his May 2008 speech after being chosen Carolina’s 10th chan-cellor,
he said the University had an obligation to tackle the greatest chal-lenges
of our time. As he said then, some of the biggest challenges call for
immediate action. Yet, the current global economic crisis has complicated
the ability to respond to such challenges as it has inspired a new way of
thinking about the future.
Thorp believes that research universities play a vital role in reshaping the
economy and addressing pressing needs by producing basic knowledge with
the highest impact – not only in the United States, but around the world.
Along with Buck Goldstein, University entrepreneur in residence at
Carolina, Thorp has co-written “Engines of Innovation: The Entrepre-neurial
University in the Twenty-First Century,” published by UNC
Press. The authors contend that universities, as hubs of creativity that
spawn innovation, have a unique opportunity to use their intellectual and
financial resources to confront global challenges.
“Attacking the world’s biggest problems – problems such as hunger,
the shortage of water, climate change and inequality – serves as an ideal
organizing principle that will encourage a multitude of large and small
innovations,” the authors say in the book’s introduction. “It is no longer
merely desirable for universities to be the source of innovations. It is now
a national priority.”
Innovation, they say, is not necessarily a big idea that will change the
world overnight; it is the way a problem is approached: “Innovation almost
always involves change, but as often as not it is the change of a process or
way of doing things as opposed to the invention of a better mouse trap. Not
surprisingly, innovation is almost always driven by somebody (typically an
entrepreneur), not an institution or a listserv or a committee.”
Fueling that innovation, particularly when it comes to large-scale scien-tific
problems, is collaboration, Thorp and Goldstein say, but not at the
expense of dismantling traditional disciplines such as chemistry, physics
and biology.
“Encouraging a culture that accepts and promotes interdisciplinary
work within the traditional disciplines and across traditional barriers will
have a greater impact,” they say. “Hearing world-class academicians truly
talking to each other across disciplinary boundaries is a sign that impor-tant
work is taking place.”
The book outlines how leading research universities can turn their brain-power
and resources into practical, high-impact solutions. For additional
information about “Engines of Innovation,” refer to http://bit.ly/bZ4lMF.
All royalties from the book will support innovation and entrepreneur-ship
at the University.
Chancellor Holden Thorp will share his ideas for inspiring
innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit beyond scientific dis-covery
in a public talk on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in 111 Carroll
Hall. “Beyond the Sciences: Why the World’s Problems Need the
Whole University” will be sponsored by the Institute for the Arts
and Humanities.
On Oct. 29, the institute will hold a symposium on inno-vation
for Carolina faculty. Four panels of faculty and campus
leaders will discuss the role faculty can play in creating an
entrepreneurial university. Registration is required only for faculty
planning to attend lunch. For a schedule and to register, refer to
iah.unc.edu/calendar/innovationsymposium.
Thorp and
Goldstein on
innovation
University Day from page 1
universities like UNC-Chapel Hill, because
the electronic mobility of the Information Age
and the unprecedented mobility of the people
around the world are redrawing the map of
global influence, and innovation will define its
contours,” Munroe-Blum said.
Munroe-Blum said she was proud to be a
graduate of a great public university like Caro-lina
that has always been a profound force for
good in the world. But the University must do
even more.
“Today, we are being asked to examine how
we can all do more to make our world a safer,
more equitable, healthier and more prosper-ous
place,” she said. “We are being challenged
to do good, better.”
Chancellor Holden Thorp said Carolina
stands ready – “with the brainpower and tal-ent
and ideas” – to answer that call.
“The people of North Carolina and around
the world have invested tremendous resources
in research universities because they believe
that the quest for knowledge improves peo-ple’s
lives,” Thorp said.
“At critical times in our history, the people
have looked to this University for answers.
And Carolina has always responded.”
And it will do so again, he said.
Plans to do just that are in hand with the
launch last month of Innovate@Carolina:
Important Ideas for a Better World, a road-map
developed by alumni, friends, faculty
and students.
To read Munroe-Blum’s speech, see
uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3990/68.
For more about University Day, see www.unc.
edu/universityday.
During his final University Day appear-ance
as president of the UNC system,
Erskine Bowles, right, calls Chancellor
Holden Thorp the exemplar of the
Carolina Way. At left is featured speaker
Heather Munroe-Blum.
The procession of faculty, staff and
dignitaries prepares to file into Memorial
Hall for the convocation.
Erskine Bowles, in his last University Day cele-bration
as president of the UNC system, tipped his cap
to Carolina’s “two great chancellors” with whom he
had worked the past five years – James Moeser and
Holden Thorp.
Moeser, in his quiet but firm way, did what every
great CEO does: “He left Carolina stronger than he
found it,” Bowles said.
And selecting Thorp as chancellor, Bowles said, was,
by far, the best decision he ever made. “If you want to
know what the Carolina Way is, look no further than
this young man right here.”
He went on to say that every University leader has
been tested during his tenure.
“You can take comfort in knowing Holden Thorp has
never failed any test,” Bowles said. “In fact, he has
never, ever even come close to making a B.”
When Thorp returned to the podium, he offered
a disclaimer of sorts: “If any of my professors from
physical chemistry are here, I think you can speak to
Erskine afterward.”
He then praised Bowles’ leadership. “He really has a
deep appreciation of the people that make the Univer-sity
what it is – and he is a really good guy to be able
to call at 11:30 at night when you don’t know what to
do. … So, Erskine, we will miss you, and thank you for
everything you’ve done for Carolina.��
October 14, 2010 5
Faculty/Staff news
The peers of longtime faculty member and adminis-trator
Jack Evans have honored him with the pres-tigious
2010 Thomas Jefferson Award. Chancellor
Holden Thorp presented the award at the Oct. 8 Faculty
Council meeting.
Evans, executive director of Carolina North and the Phil-lip
Hettleman Professor of Business Administration in the
Kenan-Flagler Business School, has been at Carolina since
1970. Within four years of his arrival, he was selected by the
late Chancellor Ferebee Taylor to be assistant to the chan-cellor,
a post he held for three years.
Whether shaping the MBA curriculum, leading Kenan-
Flagler from 1979 to 1987, serving for 15 years as faculty
athletics representative to the Atlantic Coast Conference
and NCAA, or spearheading the planning for Carolina
North, Evans has amassed an impressive record of leader-ship
in the past four decades.
The annual Jefferson Award was created in 1961 by the
Robert Earl McConnell Foundation to recognize a Carolina
faculty member who, through personal influence and perfor-mance
of duty in teaching, writing and scholarship, has best
exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson.
UNC faculty members nominate candidates for the honor,
which carries a cash prize, and a faculty committee chooses
the recipient.
“For 40 years, Jack Evans has been an unselfish and dedi-cated
servant of this University in a wide variety of roles –
invariably emerging as leader and counselor noted for unfail-ing
good judgment and wisdom,” said George Lensing, Mann
Family Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative
Literature and last year’s Jefferson Award winner.
Evans served as president of the Association for the
Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business and chaired
a two-year project to redesign its accreditation process for
business schools. During the early 1990s, he worked with
corporate and academic leaders to create a new research
program, partially funded by corporate contributions, within
the National Science Foundation to support research on the
principles of continuous improvement.
Because of Evans’ wide-ranging expertise, he led teams of
examiners who evaluated organizations competing for the
prestigious Malcolm Baldrige Award. He was an examiner
from 1989 to 1993 and judge for the next three years, and he
served on the Board of Overseers from 2001 to 2003, includ-ing
two years as chair.
Evans’ influence has been felt throughout Kenan-Flagler,
where he chaired practically every major committee in the
school, as well as across the University, said Ben Rosen,
Hanes Professor of Management.
“Jack Evans has built a well-deserved reputation for his
ability to tackle complex and important problems, help
diverse stakeholders to find common ground, use good
judgment and lead with integrity,” Rosen said.
Evans is currently serving for the second time on the
Board of Governors of UNC Press. He recently chaired the
Finance Committee and this past July became board chair.
He has been commended for his work with the NCAA
and ACC. In presenting the Jefferson Award, Thorp said,
See evans page 11
‘Unfailing good judgment and wisdom’ mark Evans’ 40 years of service
Archie Ervin, the University’s associate provost for diver-sity
and multicultural affairs since 2005, will become Geor-gia
Tech’s inaugural vice president for institute diversity on
Jan. 1, 2011.
Ervin, a familiar face at Carolina since he came here in
1986 as assistant to the vice chancellor for university affairs,
has held many leadership roles in the past 24 years.
Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser asked Ervin to chair the
Chancellor’s Task Force on Diversity in 2004, and as a result
of task force recommendations, he created Ervin’s current
position to help the University broadly focus on diversity as a measure of excellence.
“While this is a major loss for Carolina, it is a testament to his (Ervin’s) tremen-dous
capabilities in helping university communities create an atmosphere of diver-sity
and inclusivity,” Bruce Carney, executive vice chancellor and provost, said in
announcing Ervin’s departure. “We are very proud of Archie and all that he has
helped us achieve here.”
The new post will provide a bigger arena and a greater challenge for Ervin as he
helps Georgia Tech shape its diversity-related goals and strategies, Carney told the
Ervin to lead institute diversity
at Georgia Tech on Jan. 1, 2011
ervin
Jean Folkerts, dean of the School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, announced last week
that she will step down as dean on June 30, 2011.
Folkerts, a media historian, will remain on the
school’s faculty to teach,
conduct research and
mentor students.
The announcement
was not a surprise to
Ch a n c e l l o r Ho l d e n
Thorp or Bruce Carney,
executive vice chancel-lor
and provost, both of
whom had tried to con-vince
Folkerts to stay on
as dean, Carney said during the Oct. 8 Faculty
Council meeting.
“Journalism is one of our most highly ranked
units,” he said, “and although it is sad to be losing
Jean, we have a lot to celebrate.”
The University will conduct a national search
for a new dean of the school led by Jim Dean,
dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School.
“I came to the school in 2006 with a
charge to help the school make a transition to
the new, digital media environment, and above
all – as a donor and longtime friend of the school
told me early in my time here – to ‘take good
care of our school.’ I hope I’ve done that,” Folk-erts
said. “Together with our alumni, faculty,
students and staff, I think we have created a
climate of constant innovation and a desire to be
the best.”
Before coming to Chapel Hill, Folkerts served
in several positions at George Washington Uni-versity.
She was director of the School of Media
and Public Affairs, interim dean of Columbian
College of Arts and Sciences, and associate pro-vost
for special academic initiatives.
To read more about Folkerts, refer to www.
jomc.unc.edu/homepage-news-slot-23-merged/
dean-jean.
Folkerts
Folkerts returns to teaching, research
See Ervin page 11
With the completion of Venable and Murray halls,
the vision for the Carolina Physical Science Complex is
becoming reality.
Look west from a certain glass door on the second
floor of the new buildings and you can see how the
basement level bay doors of Chapman Hall line up
with the loading dock directly across what is now a
parking lot.
You are not standing in just any open lounge area,
with cozy seats and sunlight streaming in. When the
Polk Place-style quad that will unite the science com-plex
is done, this door to nowhere will become the
new building’s entrance. That’s how far ahead the
details are planned.
Which is why, perhaps, it should come as no sur-prise
that much careful thought by faculty and staff
went into the planning and design of these newer
buildings of the science complex.
Some of that thinking
went against established
notions, such as putting
one discipline in its own
building. Instead, what
if scientific colleagues
shared the same hall-way?
That’s why synthetic organic chemists now have
offices on the second floor of Murray, Venable and
Caudill, all along the same wide corridor.
“When you’re working laterally, you bump into
people,” said Matthew Redinbo, chair of the chem-istry
department.
The marine sciences department also occupies
space in Venable and Murray, which is pretty far
inland for those who study the sea. But ingenuity and
design have brought the ocean to them in the form
of a special lab with running seawater. The lab was
built on the loading dock
level, outside the skin
of the building, to pre-vent
any saltwater effects
on the labs and offices
inside, said Brent McKee,
Mary and Watts Hill Jr.
Distinguished Professor and chair of the marine
sciences department.
In Chapman Hall, supersensitive equipment belong-ing
to the Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication
Laboratory found a home in the basement to get it as
close to bedrock and as far away from vibrating venti-lation
systems as possible. Now these scientists don’t
have to fear that even the slightest vibration will make
images of nanometer-sized objects fuzzy, said Thomas
Clegg, V. Lee Bounds Professor of Physics.
Another part of the Chapman basement was
originally an unfinished space that turned out to be
just the right size and shape for a giant wave tank
used by marine scientists and mathematicians who
study fluid dynamics.
The scientists also looked skyward for space. The
roof of Chapman serves as an observatory for the
physics and astronomy department. A greenhouse juts
out of the fourth floor of Venable so marine scientists
can take advantage of the sunlight and controlled cli-mate
to examine the effects of marsh plants on circu-lation
and other experiments.
Redinbo already envisions the day when behavioral
psychologists will occupy a new psychology building
across the quad from the scientists who study brain
chemistry in Venable, Murray and Caudill.
“It’s the idea of the Greek word ‘agora,’” Redinbo
said. “This is the center of mass for science in the
College of Arts and Sciences.”
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Collaboration thrives in Carolina Physical Science Complex
One way to measure the significance of the Carolina Physical Science Complex
is to consider the amount of money required to build it. The $250 million complex
is the largest construction project in the history of the University.
But to focus only on its size and cost may be missing a more vital point, said
Chancellor Holden Thorp, who has described the complex as the epicenter where
scientists from across campus, and throughout disciplines, come together to inno-vate
and collaborate.
The five buildings that comprise the complex house the departments of chemis-try,
computer science, marine sciences, mathematics, and physics and astronomy
in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as a new Institute for Advanced Materi-als,
Nanoscience and Technology.
By bringing faculty and students together in high-tech laboratories and class-rooms,
the complex is designed with an eye for functionality and a means to
enhance Carolina’s longtime strengths in collaboration and interdisciplinary
inquiry by pushing units well beyond their traditional “silos,” Thorp said.
The University dedicated the newest buildings – Venable Hall and Murray Hall
– on the site of the former Venable Hall on University Day.
A race against time
What a difference a decade can make.
In spring 2000, when a group of legislators visited to see the campus building
needs up close, the old Venable Hall, which then housed the chemistry and marine
sciences departments, was considered the poster child for fiscal neglect.
Carolina, among the top research universities in the country, was a leader in sci-ence
and technology, legislators were told, but the decrepit conditions inside Ven-able
posed a grave threat to the University’s ability to attract and keep talented
faculty and students.
Trying to conduct state-of-the-art research in such conditions, University lead-ers
said, was akin to trying to break a new land speed record in a souped-up Model
T. You might do OK for a while, but sooner or later, you need new wheels to stay
in the race. And Model Ts, it was also noted, stopped rolling off Henry Ford’s
assembly line in 1927 – four years after Venable first opened its doors.
Legislators saw enough that spring – here and on campuses throughout the
state – to put on the November ballot the 2000 Higher Education Bond Referen-dum,
which generated $3.1 billion to fund construction projects in the UNC and
community college systems.
Of the $515 million in bond money that Carolina received, $90 million was
earmarked for the Carolina Physical Science Complex, making it the bond refer-endum’s
largest allocation for a single project. But University leaders wanted to
make it even bigger, said Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor of facilities
planning and construction, who served as the University’s point man for that
expanding vision.
Shaping the vision
The vision was brought to fruition, Runberg said, thanks to the hundreds of Car-olina
alumni and supporters who matched the generosity of state voters with gifts
of their own.
Seizing upon the excitement the bond allocation had unleashed, leaders also
raised $22 million in private gifts through the Carolina First fundraising cam-paign.
Indirectly, Carolina scientists helped finance the science complex construc-tion
costs through the use of overhead receipts, facilities and administrative costs
recouped from the federal government in support of scientific research grants.
The first phase of the complex consisted of Max C. Chapman Jr. Hall, which
opened during the 2006–07 academic year, and the W. Lowry and Susan S. Cau-dill
Laboratories, which opened a year later.
Chapman Hall added classrooms and labs for the burgeoning departments of
physics and astronomy, marine sciences and mathematics. It was named for Max
Chapman, a 1966 economics alumnus and a legendary figure in the futures and
options industry on Wall Street.
The building includes a rooftop observatory deck and a remote observing con-trol
room for telescopes that UNC uses in partnership with Chile and South Africa.
A new fluids laboratory is shared by marine sciences and applied mathematics, and
a large wave tank allows researchers to study the behavior of water in hurricanes
and tsunamis.
Caudill Labs was named in honor of Lowry Caudill and his wife Susan. Caudill,
co-founder of Magellan Laboratories Inc., made a lead $3 million gift and led fund-raising
efforts for the building. At the building dedication ceremony, he said the
science complex would help keep North Carolina at the forefront of science and
technology, a key to the state’s economy.
“We have the leadership. We have the vision. We have the drive,” he said.
And Carolina was no longer hampered in the race for research dollars by being
stuck in a Model T.
The rise in research dollars
In fall 2008, the University dedicated the first building of the second phase of the
science complex, the Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Computer Science Building, adjoin-ing
Sitterson Hall.
Earlier that year, a demolition bulldozer took its first bite out of old Venable
Hall, which disappeared from the landscape one truckload at a time. Months of site
preparation followed before a construction crane even appeared.
Now, in the once-empty footprint are Venable Hall and Murray Hall, which
occupy adjoining wings of the same building. Together, the two halls house the
William R. Kenan Jr. Science Library, a portion of the laboratories for the chemis-try
department, classrooms and lecture halls, and the marine sciences department.
The final part of the science complex, which will begin once funding becomes
available, Runberg said, includes two additional buildings to be constructed in
what is now the parking lot next to the Murray Hall side plus the site of the current
ROTC building.
Thorp said expensive new buildings by themselves are not enough to make a
university great. A great university consists of high-quality faculty and students.
Fantastic buildings, though, make it possible for faculty and students to do their
best work – and to compete for research grants.
Andy Johns, associate vice chancellor for research, said that although no formal
analysis had been conducted, he believed there was a correlation between the
emergence of the Carolina Physical Science Complex and the continuing increase
in research awards.
“Most every unit that has occupied space in the science complex has seen growth
in research funding, with some units experiencing more significant growth than
others,” Johns said.
“Perhaps the most compelling piece of data supporting this argument is that
these units have more faculty and staff involved in research awards, which likely
wouldn’t be possible without having extra space.”
Michael Crimmins, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the
Mary Ann Smith Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, said chemistry, computer
science, physics and astronomy, mathematics and marine sciences are the primary
departments that have been affected to date.
“All have added research space as a result of the construction of the Physical
Science Complex,” he said. “All but marine sciences, which is a small unit, have
increased their research funding over the past three to four years. The increase in
both the amount and quality of research space has allowed some expansion in the
numbers of researchers in these areas and the ability to attract higher quality stu-dents
and faculty.”
For instance, the fluids lab in Chapman Hall has brought in significant new fund-ing
for the math and marine sciences departments, Crimmins said. In addition, the
new Energy Frontier Research Center, which was funded by the U.S. Department
of Energy for $17.5 million, will be housed in Venable and Murray halls.
In addition, the move of several research groups from Kenan temporarily
opened up laboratory space in that building, which will be renovated through a
$1.8 million stimulus grant from the National Science Foundation, he said. And
next spring, the Institute for Nanomedicine will house one or two new faculty
members in Venable and Chapman.
“For many years to come, the science complex will foster strong collaboration
and interdisciplinary research activities at the edges of traditional disciplines,”
Crimmins said.
Even as we celebrated the dedication of new buildings
called Venable and Murray halls on University Day, the
structure that occupied that ground for 83 years lives on.
Thanks to improved construction waste management
practices on campus, more than 60 percent of old Ven-able
was reused or recycled.
So parts of the historic building are all around – as
close as the new Venable and Murray halls and as far
away as Haiti:
n On the interior courtyard of the new science complex
buildings, chunks of granite from the stairs are set into
the low stone walls. Next to an archway, old bricks
make up part of a decorative lattice-work wall and
a pedestal built into the stone wall below. A bronze
plaque engraved with the names of donors who pur-chased
the old bricks for $5,000 or $1,000 will sit atop
the pedestal.
n At Kenan Labs, many lab fixtures were salvaged
for reuse.
n Across campus, slate roofing tiles and heating and air
conditioning controls and equipment will be used for
repairs and replacement.
n Look in almost any office on campus or in employees’
homes, since 6.5 tons of office furniture and equip-ment
went to the UNC Surplus Retail Store.
n At the new Dental Science building, still under con-struction,
the limestone door surrounds will be used
to frame new doorways.
n On the trails of Carolina North, concrete tiles were
used to stabilize trails.
n In the surrounding community, concrete and brick
rubble was used for road base.
n In Morehead City, office and lab furnishings were
trucked to the Institute of Marine Sciences for reuse.
n In new ceilings everywhere, 2 tons of ceiling tiles were
recycled by Armstrong World Industries.
n In Haiti, more than 11 tons of furniture and fixtures
– chairs, student desks, file cabinets, bookshelves and
so on – were salvaged and sent to the island nation
through Institution Recycling Network and Food for
the Poor, which was hired by the contractor to repur-pose
these items.
n Anywhere in the world, 376 tons of metal of various
kinds were sorted and recycled into anything from
aluminum cans to new steel girders.
Where’s old
Venable Hall?
The science
behind
the science complex
Far left, Chris Martens looks out the window of
his office in Venable and Murray halls as work-ers
put the final touches on the walkways below.
Below, W. Lowry and Susan S. Caudill Labora-tories.
Right, Max Chapman Jr. speaks at the
November 2006 dedication of the building that
bears his name.
Far left, Venable Hall and Murray Hall are pictured in the Carolina
Physical Science Complex. Left, granite blocks from the original
Venable Hall stairs were repurposed into the low stone walls at
Venable and Murray halls. Above, old Venable Hall, which was
demolished in 2008, was replaced by Venable and Murray halls.
8 Universi ty Gazet te
PlayMakers’ ‘Fences’ opens Oct. 27
PlayMakers Repertory Company will
continue its season Oct. 27–Nov. 14 with
“Fences,” August Wilson’s drama that
won every major prize when it debuted on
Broadway in 1987. “Fences” is part of Wil-son’s
legendary decade-by-decade cycle
of plays on the evolving black experience
in the 20th century, exploring particularly
what it was like to be black and male in
mid-century America.
As part of its programming, on Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. PlayMak-ers
will host The Vision Series: Directors in Conversation with
“Fences” director Seret Scott. Those interested in the creative
process are invited to the Paul Green Theatre for a behind-the-scenes
preview of the upcoming production and refreshments.
The Vision Series is free to the public, but reservations are
encouraged. Call 962-7529 to R.S.V.P.
Show times for “Fences” will be 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through
Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Nov. 6 and 2 p.m. Sundays. For a com-plete
schedule, more information on related programming and
to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-PLAY (7529) or visit www.
playmakersrep.org. Tickets are $10 to $45.
UWC fall program to focus on
female athletes
The University Woman’s Club fall program will be held at
9:30 a.m. Oct. 19 at Carmichael Arena. Speakers will be field
hockey coach Karen Shelton, women’s basketball coach Sylvia
Hatchell and Beth Miller, senior associate director of athletics.
The coaches will talk about their programs as well as women
athletes at UNC, and Miller will be available to discuss and
answer questions about Title IX and its impact on women and
UNC athletics. There will also be a tour of the newly renovated
Carmichael building. For information, contact Mary Howes
(942-3688 or howesmary@aol.com).
Smithies, Desai headline Jupiter Ball
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center will present its
own version of “Dancing With the Stars” Nov. 19 with the 2010
Jupiter Ball. Nobel Prize-winner Oliver Smithies and “Ameri-can
Idol” finalist Anoop Desai will be among the “stars” at the
annual black-tie benefit gala that benefits science education for
North Carolina school children.
The elegant evening will include a reception, a performance
by Desai, dinner, auction and stargazing. For more informa-tion,
refer to www.moreheadplanetarium.org/go/jupiter.
Late Night with Roy
ESPN “SportCenter” anchor and Car-olina
alumnus Stuart Scott will host Late
Night with Roy 2010 on Oct. 15 from
8 to 10:30 p.m. at the Smith Center.
The free event is the first chance to
see the 2010–11 Carolina men’s and
women’s basketball teams.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tar Heel
Express buses will run beginning at
6 p.m. from the Friday Center park-and-ride lot for $5 round
trip. http://bit.ly/9iQGZ9
LECTURES, SEMINARS, SYMPOSIA
n Oct. 15–16 – The Program in the Humanities and Human
Values will host a Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring
Bart D. Ehrman titled “Who Wrote the Bible? The Contro-versial
Claims of Modern Scholars.” The seminar will begin
at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2603 of the School of Government
and will continue through noon on Oct. 16. Registration is
required, with fee. See adventuresinideas.unc.edu or call
962-1544.
n Oct. 19–20 – The Center for Urban and Regional Studies
and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science will be
co-sponsors of the Triangle Census Research Data Center’s
Third Annual Research Conference and Workshops. Among
the speakers will be Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Cen-sus
Bureau, and Barbara Entwisle, interim vice chancellor for
research and economic development. The event is free, but
registration is required. http://bit.ly/bJMDln
n Oct. 21–22 – The North Carolina Translational and Clinical
Sciences Institute in collaboration with Pfizer Pharmaceuti-cals
will host an Investigator Training Program at the Cen-ter
for School Leadership Development, 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
on Oct. 21 and 7:30 a.m.–1 p.m. on Oct. 22. Training is free,
but registration is required: http://bit.ly/aruITd. For more
information, call 843-2883 or 843-2678.
n Oct. 24 – Michael McConkey, owner of Edible Landscapes
nursery in Afton, Va., will speak about “Native Edibles for an
Edible Landscape” as part of the 11th Annual Jenny Elder
Fitch Memorial Lecture. It will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at the
N.C. Botanical Garden’s Visitor Education Center. Register
for the free talk by calling 962-0522. ncbg.unc.edu
n Oct. 26 – Richard Cante, associate professor of communica-tion
studies, will speak about “Post-Cinematic Theatricality,
Post-Theatrical Cinema and Other Enactments of Circuitry
Between Contemporary (Global) Media” as part of the Furst
Forum in Comparative Literature. The lecture will be held in
Donovan Lounge at 4 p.m.
n Oct. 27 – The Office of Global Health and the UNC Gill-ings
School of Global Public Health will sponsor the Global
Health Seminar, “Hopeworks for Women: Microcredit and
Health in North Carolina,” in Rosenau Hall from 12:30 to
1:30 p.m. www.sph.unc.edu/globalhealth/events
n Oct. 29 – The Center for Faculty Excellence and ITS Teach-ing
and Learning will sponsor a Teaching with Technol-ogy
showcase, “Shift + Control + Teach,” that will be held
from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Carolina Club in the
Hill Alumni Center. For information and to register, see
http://bit.ly/bEYQ7D.
n Oct. 29–30 – The Program in the Humanities and Human
Values will present a seminar, “Historic Horrors: Case Stud-ies
in Panic and Mass Hysteria,” in which four historians will
News in b r i e f
Jenny Levy, left, head coach of Carolina’s women’s lacrosse, motivates about 150 division leaders and team captains dur-ing
the Oct. 5 kickoff for the 2010 Carolina Cares, Carolina Shares charitable giving campaign. In addition to Levy, Chan-cellor
Holden Thorp, Linda Carlisle, secretary of the North Carolina Department for Cultural Resources, and Brenda Malo-ne,
vice chancellor for human resources, spoke to the group. Carolina’s campaign, part of the State Employees Combined
Campaign (SECC), runs through Nov. 18. While Carolina has always been a major contributor to the SECC, this year’s focus
is on employee participation. “Any amount employees can give, no matter how small, is appreciated,” Malone said to the
gathering. More information is available from each department’s team captain, or visit www.unc.edu/secc.
Carolina Cares, Carolina Shares
October 14, 2010 9
discuss monsters, screaming masses
and panics past and present – just
in time for Halloween. The program
will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Center
for School Leadership Development
and will continue through Oct. 30 at
1 p.m. Registration is required, with
fee. See adventuresinideas.unc.edu or
call 962-1544.
DEADLINES TO WATCH
n Applications are due by Nov. 10 for
the Institute for the Arts and Humani-ties
2011-12 Academic Leadership
Program. The ALP helps prepare
and support current and emerging
academic leaders throughout the
University through a series of activi-ties
to help them develop leadership
skills, clarify their career commit-ments,
build a leadership network
within the campus and extend their
contacts to other leaders beyond the
university. All tenured faculty at UNC are eligible. http://bit.
ly/9k2oVE
n Applications are due by Nov. 15 for the Carolina Women’s
Center fall 2011 and spring 2012 Faculty Scholar program.
One Faculty Scholar will be chosen for each semester. Fac-ulty
Scholars will be engaged in a project for publication,
presentation, exhibition, composition or performance that is
related to the center’s mission.
Download the application in the forms section on the cen-ter’s
website: womenscenter.unc.edu. For more information,
contact Donna Bickford (843-5620 or dbickford@unc.edu).
READINGS
n Oct. 28 – Bland Simpson
and Beaufort photographer
Scott Taylor will launch the
publication of their new
book in the Wilson Special
Collections Library. “The
Coasts of Carolina: Sea-side
to Sound Country,”
published by UNC Press,
is a portrait of life along the
North Carolina oceanfront and interior shores. A reception
will begin at 5 p.m., followed by the program at 5:45 p.m.
http://bit.ly/aNVZAe
n Oct. 28 – Jeffery Beam will read from “Gospel Earth” at the
N.C. Botanical Garden’s Visitor Education Center from 7 to
9 p.m. Call to register: 962-0522.
SCREENINGS
n Oct. 15 – The premiere of “Brother Towns/Pueblos Her-manos”
will begin at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the FedEx
Global Education Center. Following the screening, film-maker
Charles Thompson will answer questions about the
film – a story of two towns in Guatemala and Florida linked
by immigration, family and work. http://bit.ly/BrTA7
n Oct. 23 – “Down Home,” which shares stories of Jewish life
in North Carolina from pioneering settlers to contempo-rary
diverse communities, will be shown as part of the Syl-via
and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in
the American South. A panel discussion will follow the film,
which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall. www.unc.edu/
ccjs/events.html
Williams, Daugherty to headline
Fast Break Against Cancer
Two men who know more than a little about Tar Heel bas-ketball
– Roy Williams and Brad Daugherty – will headline
the sixth annual Fast Break Against Cancer fundraiser Oct. 15
on center court of the Smith Center. The breakfast, provided
by the Carolina Inn, will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Men’s basketball assistant coaches and Woody Durham, the
“voice of the Tar Heels,” also will participate. Durham will lead
a live auction for one-of-a-kind items with a Tar Heel twist. The
event is sponsored by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Can-cer
Center. For information and to order tickets, see uncline-berger.
org/gift/fastbreak/2010.
Nominations open for Summer
Reading Program book
Suggested titles are due by Oct. 15 for the Summer Reading
Program. In a new initiative, incoming students at both Caro-lina
and Duke will read the same book, selected by a joint com-mittee
comprising faculty, staff and students of both schools.
To learn more and to make a suggestion, visit the Carolina
Summer Reading Program website: www.unc.edu/srp.
UNC-Duke projects funded by
new initiative
A $150,000 initiative that promotes projects developed by
students from Duke and Carolina launched Oct. 4. The Kenan-
Biddle Partnership is funded by the William R. Kenan Jr. Chari-table
Trust and The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
The partnership will promote student-initiated,
inter-institutional projects designed to
strengthen established collaborations
or encourage new ones. The projects
may also contribute to the scholarly or
public service missions of both cam-puses.
Each project proposal must have
a student or students who serve as the
project initiator.
Applications will be accepted through
Nov. 15 for proposals from both cam-puses
that encourage collaborative arts,
sciences and humanities projects. Each
project must include at least one public
exhibition, presentation or performance.
Preference will be given to proposals
made jointly by students from both insti-tutions.
http://bit.ly/b5LPWI
Kids Rock! Tennis
Campus Recreation will give kids
exposure to the fundamentals of tennis
using the Quick Start method during
the Kids Rock! program Oct. 16 from
10 a.m. to noon at the South Campus Recreation Complex. To
RSVP for the free event, contact Aaron Stern (ajstern@email.
unc.edu) by Oct. 14.
UNC rises to 16th in R&D spending
A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education
ranked the University 16th among “The Top 100 Institutions
in Federally Financed R&D Expenditures, 2009.” The Univer-sity
moved up seven places over a five-year period, with spend-ing
last year of more than $431 million.
The rankings of academic research and development spend-ing
were based on a report provided by the National Science
Foundation of both public and private universities.
To see the Chronicle article, refer to http://bit.ly/a8Qx1C.
For the Record
n The Sept. 29 Gazette misspelled the name of Charles M.
Shaffer Jr., vice president for institutional advancement at
the Westminster Schools, who was one of five recipients of
the Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Awards on Univer-sity
Day.
n In 1955, LeRoy Frasier, John Brandon and Ralph Frasier
were the first black undergraduates to attend Carolina, but
the University’s first black students were Harvey Beech and
Kenneth Lee, who were admitted to the School of Law four
years earlier, in 1951.
The Gazette regrets both errors.
NEWS IN BRIEF Submissions
Next issue includes events from Oct. 28 to Nov. 17.
Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m., Mon., Oct. 18.
E-mail gazette@unc.edu. The Gazette events page
includes only items of general interest geared toward
a broad audience. For complete listings of events, see
the Carolina Events Calendars at events.unc.edu.
Artist Michael Brown works on restoration of “The Parade,” a mural he originally painted in
1997 to reflect the characters of Franklin Street. Funded by the University, the restoration of the
mural was part of an overall improvement of the exterior of the Hill Building on Porthole Alley.
Many of Brown’s other 19 Chapel Hill murals also are being restored through the Painted Walls
Project. To see photos of other murals, refer to http://bit.ly/9uMhpQ.
University would have a practice in place to examine relationships that might exist.
Thorp said he has had many conversations with Football Coach Butch Davis about his knowl-edge
of contact between former Associate Football Coach John Blake and agent Gary Wichard.
He said there was still more work to do in understanding why the head football coach was unaware
of that contact.
Another faculty member expressed concern about the proper balance between athletics and aca-demics
in higher education.
“That is the thing that keeps me up at night more than the individual details,” Thorp said. “The
hardest thing is to … ask yourself what’s right for UNC-Chapel Hill. I’m really more interested in
that, because if we manage that the right way, we have an opportunity to do what’s right for us.”
Thorp said he was most concerned about creating an environment for students that allowed
them to get the best education. His second concern was to make sure academic values take priority
over athletics as the University earns its way back to a leadership position nationally.
Data security
In closed session, the council discussed a faculty disciplinary issue involving the responsibility
of a principal investigator to protect the sensitive personal information of research participants.
In open session, Larry Conrad, vice chancellor for information technology and chief informa-tion
officer, talked about the importance of encrypting sensitive data of all forms, particularly when
people are working from a laptop.
A summary of the University’s information security policies, including key requirements for
protecting sensitive data, is available at help.unc.edu/CCM3_020433. Specific information about
encrypting e-mail is available at help.unc.edu/CCM3_020818.
Appreciative inquiry
Faculty Chair McKay Coble discussed restructuring each meeting to allow more engagement
between council members and presenters, based on feedback from the appreciative inquiry exer-cise
during last month’s meeting.
Coble asked that presenters provide a summary of their work in addition to posting reports
online and allow for questions after their presentations.
The meetings will end with an open question-and-answer session focusing on any topic, includ-ing
the chance, at Thorp’s suggestion, to “buzz the chancellor.”
Athletics reports
Later in the meeting, Steve Reznick, chair of the Faculty Athletics Committee, presented the
committee’s 2009–10 report. The committee informs the faculty and advises the chancellor on
all athletics-related issues, and Reznick said it was important for faculty members to learn about
intercollegiate athletics so they could make good decisions.
“I wish everyone had the opportunity to serve on this committee,” he said. “I have learned
so much about how athletics is part of the broader University and creates opportunities in
other areas.”
Jack Evans, Carolina’s faculty athletics representative for the past 15 years, presented that
2009–10 report on behalf of current representative Lissa Broome.
Evans talked about the importance of the representative’s role in having immediate access
both to the chancellor and the athletics director, as well as visibility with the coaching staff
“so the coaches understand there is someone representing the academic side of the life of
student-athletes.”
Both reports are online at www.unc.edu/faculty/faccoun/agendas/2010-11/A10FC10.html.
10 Universi ty Gazet te
Benefits enrollment continues
through Oct. 29
The annual enrollment for University and NCFlex ben-efits
has begun and will continue through Oct. 29. Employees
should review their current benefit elections and enroll in those
benefits that best suit their needs.
Highlights to this year’s enrollment include:
n Group Term Life provided by the University and underwrit-ten
by MetLife will see employee rates decrease an average of
5 percent. In addition, there are enhanced coverage levels for
employees and their dependents.
n Core Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance is
provided by NCFlex at no cost to the employee. Employees
receive $10,000 of coverage but must go online and actively
elect this benefit. Employees who enrolled in this benefit last
year do not need to re-enroll.
n Health-care spending accounts will not reimburse employees
for over-the-counter medications in 2011 unless these medi-cations
are prescribed by a physician, so employees should
budget cautiously for this account for 2011. The account
requires re-enrollment every year.
n Dependent Day Care spending account requires re-enroll-ment
every year.
The University’s benefits enrollment site, http://bit.ly/
apC2N1, has additional information and links to benefit-spe-cific
topics. For additional information, call 962-3071.
‘Kick Up Your Heels’ on Oct. 22
Get ready to “Kick Up Your Heels” at Carolina’s 2010
Employee Appreciation Day, Oct. 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Enjoy free food and entertainment in the Pit and the F.P.G.
Student Union.
Plan to attend the Employee Talent Show and the UNC
Department Fair, and participate in DJ and karaoke, games and
other entertainment – plus a free movie screening.
Employees also can take advantage of the 25 percent dis-count
on Bulls Head books, Carolina logo items and medical
apparel at Student Stores. Flu shots also will be available for
employees.
Employee Appreciation Day, hosted by the Office of Human
Resources, is a work-time event with advance approval from an
employee’s supervisor.
human
resources briefs
Faculty Council from page 3
From left, Igor Munteanu, Moldovan ambassador to the United States, and
Asif Chaudhry, United States ambassador to Moldova, share a moment at
the Old Well Oct. 7 with Ron Strauss, executive associate provost, and Bruce
Carney, executive vice chancellor and provost. The ambassadors visited cam-pus
to learn more about the history of the North Carolina–Moldova State
Partnership Program. The program, which links U.S. states with partner coun-tries
through the U.S. Army National Guard, reflects the guard’s evolving inter-national
affairs mission.
The ambassadors met with faculty, staff and students from the UNC Center
for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, Gillings School of Global Public
Health and the School of Dentistry and School of Medicine, and they partici-pated
in a videoconference with East Carolina University faculty members.
In addition, Munteanu and Chaudhry also met with Carney and Strauss to
discuss ways that the Carolina community might become more involved in Mol-dova,
specifically in the areas of business, information technology and educa-tion.
Learn more: http://bit.ly/9QH0nI.
U.S.–Moldovan ambassadors visit UNC
Linda Kastleman
October 14, 2010 11
“You are an exemplar for the nation in how faculty should be
involved in athletics.”
Not only was Evans Carolina’s faculty athletics representa-tive
to the NCAA and ACC from 1995 to 2010, he served as
president of the ACC in 1998-99 and again in 2006-07, and
served on the NCAA Management Council from 2001 to 2007.
Since 2002, he has been a contributor to the NCAA’s academic
reform efforts and has served on the Committee on Academic
Performance since 2004.
In January, Evans received the Department of Athletics’
Priceless Gem Award in honor of his long service to the Univer-sity,
the town and the state.
“Jack Evans always represented what was best about athlet-ics
and UNC,” Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser said in his
nomination letter. “He embodied integrity, trustworthiness
and a commitment to excellence.”
Because of that commitment to excellence, combined with
tenacity and patience, Moeser in 2006 appointed Evans to head
the development of Carolina North.
“Four years ago, if someone had told me that the (Chapel
Hill) Town Council would unanimously approve a Carolina
North development agreement, I would have thought they
were crazy,” Moeser said. “Many people worked to bring about
this result, but Jack Evans led the process. To me, this is a won-derful
example of faculty leadership and service.”
In accepting the award, Evans said he had been fortunate to
be given an assignment from every chancellor since Taylor.
“I’m grateful for those opportunities because my sense of the
University’s service to the people of the state has only deep-ened,”
he said.
evans from page 5
The final meeting of the Energy Task Force
began on a positive note Oct. 5.
“I want to share some exciting news,” Chan-cellor
Holden Thorp told the group after
thanking them for their service since Febru-ary.
“Our greenhouse gas emissions in 2009
were 20 percent lower than they were in 2008,
and we’re really proud of that.” Thorp’s refer-ence
was to the newly released 2009 green-house
gas inventory for the University, now
available online at www.climate.unc.edu/
GHGInventory.
Thorp singled out Tim Toben, chair of the
task force and also of the N.C. Energy Policy
Council, and Molly Diggins, state director of
the N.C. chapter of the Sierra Club, for spe-cial
praise, and also thanked the students in
the Beyond Coal campaign who attended
the meeting.
“Thank you for pushing us,” Thorp said to
task force members, “and for helping us under-stand
what more we can do.”
The task force then began to review a set of
draft recommendations related to energy effi-ciency
on campus.
As student task force member Elinor
Benami read from a draft of student recom-mendations,
including increasing energy lit-eracy
and creating a model dorm room or lab,
Toben expressed concern about how the rec-ommendations
might be implemented. “We
need to make a home for each of these efforts,”
he said.
Student-led initiatives are especially at
risk because of the lack of continuity from
one class to another. From the audience, stu-dent
Chris Lazinski of the Roosevelt Institute
and the Renewable Energy Special Projects
Committee encouraged “having institutional
support and stability for the student groups.”
The task force will spend the next few weeks
preparing its final set of recommendations to
be presented to Thorp by the end of October.
The 10-member group set an ambitious
pace from the start, issuing a set of six interim
recommendations related to energy supply
– including that the University end the use of
coal on campus by May 2020.
To see the minutes and presentations from
previous meetings, refer to www.unc.edu/
chan/chancellors/thorp_holden/energy
taskforce.php.
Energy task force to give final recommendations by the end of October
‘A look
back
in time’
The Black Faculty and Staff Caucus, also known as the Carolina
Black Caucus, invites retired administrator Carl Smith, left, and retired School of Social
Work professor Hortense McClinton to share their memories during the Oct. 6 meeting,
“A Look Back in Time.” McClinton was the first black professor at Carolina and Smith
was the assistant to five different provosts spanning more than 25 years.
Also pictured are current caucus chair Deborah Stroman, center right, and, at right,
Charles Daye, Henry Brandis Professor of Law and one of the founders of the caucus,
who joined the panel to talk about the University climate that led to the development
of the organization.
In addition to Stroman, the current leadership team includes Chris Faison, Shandra
Jones, Debra Watkins, Angelette Cheek, O.J. McGhee, Herb Richmond and Nakenge
Robertson. Refer to www.unc.edu/cbc for information about the caucus.
Ervin from page 5
Faculty Council at its Oct. 8 meeting.
For information about Ervin’s new position, including com-ments
from Georgia Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson, refer to
http://bit.ly/9Brsz1.
Carney said he had made an offer for someone to serve as
interim director of the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
and was optimistic the person would accept. He also reminded fac-ulty
and staff that the University’s diversity assessment was under
way and encouraged people to share their views.
Carolina mourns death of
Rameses’ caretaker, Hogan
Rob Hogan, the owner and caretaker of Rameses, Carolina’s
blue-horned mascot, died Oct. 8 following complications related
to an injury he suffered Sept. 15 on his farm in Carrboro. The
54-year-old was part of the Hogan family that has taken care of a
series of Carolina mascots since 1924.
Hogan was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a condition in
which injured muscle tissue releases toxins that can damage the
kidneys. He underwent operations nearly every day to remove
parts of his hip, leg and abdomen, but earlier this month devel-oped
problems with a blood clot in his liver and additional fluid
in his lungs and abdomen.
A memorial service was held yesterday in the George Watts
Hill Alumni Center. Donations may be made to the Conservation
Trust for North Carolina (www.ctnc.org) or the Orange-Durham
Cattlemen’s Association, 306 E. Revere Rd., Hillsborough 27278.
To read more about Hogan, refer to http://bit.ly/9ztU74.
12 Universi ty Gazet te
It was youthful idealism – the belief that he
held the power to change the world – that first
drew Richard Harrill to the Campus Y when
he was a student at Carolina.
It was that same idealism – tempered
and honed by 18 years of experience around
the globe – that drew him back one year
ago to become its director after Virginia
Carson retired.
“I could not have found a better moment,”
he said.
Among the reasons for that, he said, are the
lasting achievements Carson created during
her 10-year tenure, beginning with her abil-ity
to rally support for a $2.6 million capital
improvement program to restore the cher-ished,
historic Campus Y building that had
deteriorated to the point of being on the brink
of demolition.
Carson also brought the Y back to promi-nence
by raising the level of excitement and
involvement among students. Today, the
Campus Y boasts some 2,000 student mem-bers
who are engaged in about 30 different
committees working to address a variety of
social-justice issues, from public health to
homelessness to education.
“Her spirit and her passion for working
with young people just attracted students like
a magnet,” Harrill said. “As a result of that, I
inherited a Campus Y that may be as strong as
it has even been in its history.”
It is partly in celebration of that history –
and partly in anticipation of the challenges
and opportunities that lie ahead – that the
Campus Y will host a three-day program this
weekend called “Carolina Change-Makers:
150 Years of Innovations in Social Justice.”
The event, which kicks off Friday, is spon-sored
in partnership with the APPLES Service-
Learning Program and the Student Coalition
for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE)
and will feature motivating talks, oral histories
and presentations by the Campus Y’s diverse
student groups.
Alumni of the Campus Y have been invited,
but the event is really for the entire campus
community to celebrate the Y’s rich history as
it looks ahead, Harrill said.
“We want to blow the walls off this place and
bring in people from all over campus so they
can see that we want to be a partner with them
and want to be relevant in a lot of the differ-ent
conversations around campus about social
innovation and changing the world for the bet-ter,”
Harrill said.
“It’s not just about discovering the Y.
It’s about building excitement by getting peo-ple
involved.”
‘Conscience of
the campus’
Harrill, who graduated from Carolina in
1991 with a bachelor’s degree in political sci-ence
and a law degree seven years later, served
as student co-president of the Y. He credits
UNC President Emeritus William C. Friday
with devising the Y’s campus moniker.
“Bill Friday said we were the nerve center in
that we were the place where stuff happened,
the little building off to the side of South
Building that served as the ‘conscience of the
campus,’” Harrill said.
Before Harrill began work
toward his law degree, he
served as a Peace Corps vol-unteer
in Veszprem, Hungary,
from 1993 to 1995. There, he
taught English and American
history at Vetesi Albert High
School and the University of
Veszprem, and he coached
and played semi-professional
basketball.
In 1996, he co-founded
Youth Services International
in Washington D.C., and
Budapest, Hungary.
From 2003 to 2007, Har-rill
served as director of the
Bard College Program on Glo-balization
and International
Affairs. Based in Manhattan,
the service-learning program
allows 85 undergraduates or
college graduates from around the world to
combine the study of civil society, interna-tional
law, political economy, public health,
ethics and journalism with professional
internships.
He also led the duplication of the program
at Central European University in Budapest
and in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the Uni-versity
of Witwatersrand.
Before being named director of the Y in
summer 2009, Harrill served as the director for
Europe of the Public Interest Law Institute in
Budapest. The institute is an international non-governmental
organization whose mission is to
advance human rights around the world.
Global challenges
Harrill sees the Y as one of several hybrid
organizations on campus that have always
had “one foot in the classroom and one foot in
the community” and are uniquely positioned
to respond to Chancellor Holden Thorp’s
call for the University to help solve the
world’s problems.
“This has been a fabulous opportunity for
me to come back to an institution I love at a
moment when there is a chancellor and a
provost and a new vice chancellor for student
affairs who are all thinking about so many of
the things I am also passionate about,” he said.
If the University is successful in answering
Thorp’s call, Harrill said, it would not only
mean changing the world – but changing the
way students learn as well.
“As we call upon students to try to solve
the world’s problems, we must give them the
tools they need to be able to measure results,”
Harrill said. “We also want for students,
through their volunteerism and engagement,
to develop life skills that would be valuable
to them no matter what professions they
choose.”
Harrill lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and
4-year-old daughter.
To learn more about this weekend’s celebra-tion,
refer to campus-y.unc.edu/index.php/
contact-us/377-anniversary-homepage.
MATTHEW KOESTER
Richard Harrill
is motivated by
the how and ‘Y’
of social change